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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

sit.ac.nz

SIT - Southern Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

656 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing SIT content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sit.ac.nz

The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) provides quality education and is the home of the Zero Fees Scheme. We offer a wide range of subjects, courses and qualifications that are NZQA accredited.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sit.ac.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 656 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sit.ac.nz performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,580 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sit.ac.nz

656 ms

sit.ac.nz

1725 ms

css

1103 ms

js

1631 ms

WebResource.axd

967 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Sit.ac.nz, 7% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Sit.ac.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 508.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sit.ac.nz main page is 1.9 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. 75% 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 953.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 370.0 kB

  • Original 418.7 kB
  • After minification 339.2 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 79.5 kB, which is 19% 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 370.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 50.1 kB

  • Original 953.8 kB
  • After minification 903.7 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. SIT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 413.7 kB
  • After minification 413.7 kB
  • After compression 406.3 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

-98%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 82.3 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Sit.ac.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.6 kB or 98% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (51%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SIT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sit.ac.nz

sit.ac.nz

656 ms

sit.ac.nz

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1725 ms

css

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1103 ms

js

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1631 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

967 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1190 ms

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ScriptResource.axd

978 ms

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1199 ms

api.js

api.js

47 ms

validator.min.js

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41 ms

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52 ms

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1194 ms

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styles.css

991 ms

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script.js

1110 ms

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71 ms

bootstrap-select.min.css

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58 ms

css2

css2

79 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

980 ms

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jquery.sticky.js

981 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

988 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

992 ms

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banner2.webp

1147 ms

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2049 ms

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1380 ms

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1976 ms

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2206 ms

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1615 ms

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1278 ms

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1614 ms

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1612 ms

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1833 ms

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1838 ms

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1838 ms

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2055 ms

Blended-Campus.jpg

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2059 ms

430_0685_BW.webp

430_0685_BW.webp

2061 ms

SIT_Logo_Letters.png

SIT_Logo_Letters.png

2196 ms

SIT-Zero-fees-condensed-orange-bg.png

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2267 ms

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2275 ms

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2279 ms

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2280 ms

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2416 ms

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2428 ms

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2489 ms

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gtm.js

75 ms

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utag.js

75 ms

recaptcha__en.js

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61 ms

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2447 ms

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2452 ms

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2900 ms

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2845 ms

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68 ms

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95 ms

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208 ms

analytics.js

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358 ms

destination

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357 ms

bat.js

bat.js

669 ms

tfa.js

tfa.js

871 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

867 ms

destination

destination

345 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

658 ms

919 ms

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640 ms

linkid.js

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408 ms

tracking.monsido.com

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492 ms

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1913 ms

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2031 ms

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470 ms

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1575 ms

json

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141 ms

collect

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23 ms

collect

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20 ms

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ga-audiences

112 ms

js

js

105 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

sit.ac.nz 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

sit.ac.nz 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sit.ac.nz SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

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 Sit.ac.nz 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 Sit.ac.nz 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

sit.ac.nz

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