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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

stadio.ac.za

STADIO Higher Education | Accredited Tertiary Education

Page Load Speed

22.6 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

18.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

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About Website

Visit stadio.ac.za now to see the best up-to-date STADIO content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about stadio.ac.za

With 10 Academic Schools, over 50+ accredited qualifications and both contact and distance learning options, STADIO is widening access to higher education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stadio.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 22.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stadio.ac.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.268

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stadio.ac.za

166 ms

stadio.ac.za

1044 ms

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65 ms

google_tag.script.js

37 ms

align.module.css

810 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Stadio.ac.za, 4% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to 8777abcb04e0454aa7c4e0d125abe83d.svc.dynamics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Stadio.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (4%)

Content Size

50.9 MB

After Optimization

48.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stadio.ac.za main page is 50.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 50.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 66.9 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 10.3 kB, which is 13% 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 66.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 50.3 MB
  • After minification 48.2 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. STADIO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

  • Original 466.0 kB
  • After minification 465.6 kB
  • After compression 380.2 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 85.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 98.8 kB
  • After compression 92.1 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. Stadio.ac.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (44%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of STADIO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

stadio.ac.za accessibility score

86

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

stadio.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

stadio.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

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 Stadio.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 Stadio.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

stadio.ac.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of STADIO. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: