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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

samaritime.co.za

SA Maritime School & Transport College | Durban | Cape Town

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

897 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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About Website

Visit samaritime.co.za now to see the best up-to-date SA Maritime content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about samaritime.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samaritime.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 897 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

samaritime.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

samaritime.co.za

897 ms

index.css

296 ms

swfobject_modified.js

570 ms

get_flash_player.gif

58 ms

SA-Maritime.png

572 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Samaritime.co.za, 5% (1 request) were made to Adobe.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Samaritime.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

82.0 kB

After Optimization

48.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Samaritime.co.za main page is 82.0 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. Images take 50.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 1.7 kB, which is 18% 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 6.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 41.2 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. Obviously, SA Maritime needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.5 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 17.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Maritime. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

samaritime.co.za

samaritime.co.za

897 ms

index.css

index.css

296 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

570 ms

get_flash_player.gif

get_flash_player.gif

58 ms

SA-Maritime.png

SA-Maritime.png

572 ms

Sailing.png

Sailing.png

302 ms

Education.png

Education.png

829 ms

tetalogo.png

tetalogo.png

571 ms

saafflogo.png

saafflogo.png

575 ms

2015downloads.png

2015downloads.png

573 ms

application.png

application.png

574 ms

downloadtimetable.png

downloadtimetable.png

831 ms

follow-us1.png

follow-us1.png

832 ms

twitter1.png

twitter1.png

832 ms

facebook1.png

facebook1.png

832 ms

fulltime.png

fulltime.png

832 ms

partime.png

partime.png

1108 ms

notices1.png

notices1.png

1114 ms

safreslogo.png

safreslogo.png

1673 ms

Accessibility Review

samaritime.co.za accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

samaritime.co.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

samaritime.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Samaritime.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 Samaritime.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

samaritime.co.za

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