Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za

Home - Nelson Mandela University

Page Load Speed

15.9 sec in total

First Response

4.3 sec

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to applyonline.nmmu.ac.za homepage info - get ready to check Applyonline Nmmu best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about applyonline.nmmu.ac.za

Nelson Mandela University is a South African university with campuses in the cities of Port Elizabeth and George.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Applyonline.nmmu.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.3 sec and then it took 11.6 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

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.497

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za

4282 ms

StudNoLogin.aspx

268 ms

StudNoLogin.aspx

344 ms

thankyou.aspx

530 ms

jquery-2.1.3.min.js

1068 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Applyonline.nmmu.ac.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Applyonline.nmmu.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.3 kB (78%)

Content Size

425.2 kB

After Optimization

93.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Applyonline.nmmu.ac.za main page is 425.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 261.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 8.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 398 B

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Applyonline Nmmu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 201.3 kB

  • Original 261.2 kB
  • After minification 200.2 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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 201.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 121.0 kB

  • Original 143.8 kB
  • After minification 136.9 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. Applyonline.nmmu.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (58%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Applyonline Nmmu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

applyonline.nmmu.ac.za SEO score

75

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

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

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 Applyonline.nmmu.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 Applyonline.nmmu.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 Applyonline Nmmu. 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: