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thebusinessschool.co.za

IIE Full Time, Part Time & Online Study | The IIE’s Varsity College

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

710 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

112 ms

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Study IIE Post Grad Degrees, Undergrad Degrees, Diplomas & Higher Certificates at Varsity College an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE). SA’s leading private higher ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebusinessschool.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 710 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebusinessschool.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thebusinessschool.co.za

710 ms

www.thebusinessschool.co.za

1081 ms

styles.css

697 ms

slider.css

456 ms

modernizr.custom.79639.js

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Thebusinessschool.co.za, 11% (8 requests) were made to Pixel.mathtag.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Iie.pty.ltd.ac.za.clientico.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thebusinessschool.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (67%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thebusinessschool.co.za main page is 3.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.5 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 51.6 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.9 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 46.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 337.0 kB
  • After minification 335.4 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. Thebusinessschool images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.5 MB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 918.5 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 2.5 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 56.9 kB

  • Original 66.5 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. Thebusinessschool.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (59%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thebusinessschool. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thebusinessschool.co.za SEO score

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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 Thebusinessschool.co.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 Thebusinessschool.co.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 Thebusinessschool. 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: