Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

tmlearn.ul.ac.za

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Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

99 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tmlearn.ul.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tmlearn.ul.ac.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.007

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1723 ms

shared.css

279 ms

theme.css

553 ms

brand.css

830 ms

i18n.js

832 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Tmlearn.ul.ac.za, 4% (1 request) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (1 request) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Tmlearn.ul.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 692.8 kB (78%)

Content Size

893.1 kB

After Optimization

200.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Tmlearn.ul.ac.za main page is 893.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 494.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 34.0 kB
  • After compression 7.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 26.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 46.2 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Tm Learn Ul images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 410.1 kB

  • Original 494.1 kB
  • After minification 332.7 kB
  • After compression 84.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 410.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 252.1 kB

  • Original 314.6 kB
  • After minification 296.8 kB
  • After compression 62.5 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Tmlearn.ul.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 252.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (50%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tm Learn Ul. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tmlearn.ul.ac.za accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

tmlearn.ul.ac.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

tmlearn.ul.ac.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tmlearn.ul.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Tmlearn.ul.ac.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tm Learn Ul. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: