Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

fulton.org.za

School for the Deaf, Durban, South Africa - Fulton School for the Deaf

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

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Fulton School for the Deaf is devoted to the education of profoundly deaf and hearing-impaired children & offers them Pre-Primary to High School education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fulton.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 8.2 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

fulton.org.za performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.fulton.org.za

2372 ms

style.css

371 ms

css

24 ms

nivo-slider.css

742 ms

style.min.css

1096 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Fulton.org.za, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Fulton.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

465.8 kB

After Optimization

427.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Fulton.org.za main page is 465.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 249.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 26.3 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 26.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 160.5 kB
  • After minification 152.5 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. Fulton images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 249.1 kB
  • After minification 249.1 kB
  • After compression 247.8 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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. Fulton.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fulton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fulton.org.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

fulton.org.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

fulton.org.za SEO score

64

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Fulton.org.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 Fulton.org.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 data is detected on the main page of Fulton. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: