Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

schoolsthatrock.co.za

Schools That Rock - Place for all news revolving around schools

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

schoolsthatrock.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Everything you want to know free and forever! We provide all the news around and inside schools. From news to events everything to-do with schools.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Schoolsthatrock.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 3.5 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

schoolsthatrock.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value25,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

schoolsthatrock.co.za

275 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

115 ms

allinone_bannerRotator.css

136 ms

styles.css

130 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 200 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (136 requests) were addressed to the original Schoolsthatrock.co.za, 9% (18 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (15 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Schoolsthatrock.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (47%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Schoolsthatrock.co.za main page is 3.5 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. 85% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 219.7 kB

  • Original 249.3 kB
  • After minification 246.1 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 219.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 387.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Schools That Rock needs image optimization as it can save up to 387.7 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 473.3 kB

  • Original 663.4 kB
  • After minification 626.7 kB
  • After compression 190.1 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 473.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 573.7 kB

  • Original 635.4 kB
  • After minification 571.6 kB
  • After compression 61.6 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. Schoolsthatrock.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 573.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (48%)

Requests Now

188

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 188 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Schools That Rock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

schoolsthatrock.co.za accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

schoolsthatrock.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

schoolsthatrock.co.za SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Schoolsthatrock.co.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 Schoolsthatrock.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 Schools That Rock. 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: