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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ufh.ac.za

University of Fort Hare | Together in Excellence

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

438 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ufh content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ufh.ac.za

The University of Fort Hare has six faculties (Education, Health Sciences, Law, Management & Commerce, Science & Agriculture, Social Sciences & Humanities) all of which offer qualifications up to the ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ufh.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ufh.ac.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ufh.ac.za

1510 ms

system.base.css

480 ms

system.menus.css

680 ms

system.messages.css

678 ms

system.theme.css

681 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Ufh.ac.za, 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Ufh.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 508.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ufh.ac.za main page is 5.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 61.2 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 48.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 425.5 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 4.8 MB

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. Ufh images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 298.5 kB
  • After minification 296.8 kB
  • After compression 273.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 222.6 kB
  • After minification 222.2 kB
  • After compression 213.1 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. Ufh.ac.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (72%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ufh. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ufh.ac.za accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

ufh.ac.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ufh.ac.za SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ufh.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ufh.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

ufh.ac.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ufh. 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: