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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

smms.ac.za

SMMS | Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

779 ms

Resources Loaded

11 sec

Page Rendered

150 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing SMMS content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about smms.ac.za

Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary is one of the leading Theological Seminaries in the sub-region of Southern Africa & on the continent of Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smms.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 779 ms and then it took 11.2 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

smms.ac.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smms.ac.za

779 ms

smms1.dyndns.org

726 ms

system.css

296 ms

position.css

912 ms

layout.css

2666 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Smms.ac.za, 94% (15 requests) were made to Smms1.dyndns.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.2 sec) relates to the external source Smms1.dyndns.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.1 kB (56%)

Content Size

108.8 kB

After Optimization

47.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smms.ac.za main page is 108.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 70.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 515 B, which is 15% 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 2.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 360 B

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.1 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. SMMS images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. Smms.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (50%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smms.ac.za

smms.ac.za

779 ms

smms1.dyndns.org

smms1.dyndns.org

726 ms

system.css

system.css

296 ms

position.css

position.css

912 ms

layout.css

layout.css

2666 ms

beez5.css

beez5.css

2170 ms

general.css

general.css

1007 ms

general_mozilla.css

general_mozilla.css

696 ms

Newlogo.bmp

Newlogo.bmp

9196 ms

fruits.jpg

fruits.jpg

2836 ms

system.css

system.css

1117 ms

header_outer.jpg

header_outer.jpg

428 ms

box1.png

box1.png

290 ms

karo.gif

karo.gif

319 ms

tabs_back.png

tabs_back.png

462 ms

print.css

print.css

335 ms

Accessibility Review

smms.ac.za accessibility score

97

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

smms.ac.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

smms.ac.za SEO score

93

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

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 Smms.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 Smms.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

smms.ac.za

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