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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

student360.africa

Student360 | Your online portal to everything education in SA

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

314 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Student360 content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about student360.africa

At Student360, we bring you a wealth of knowledge through our articles, tips, advice, features and resources from across the basic and tertiary education spectrum.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Student360.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 314 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

student360.africa performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,670 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.584

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.student360.africa

314 ms

wpp.min.js

30 ms

all.css

25 ms

style-blocks.css

39 ms

slick.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Student360.africa, 8% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (462 ms) belongs to the original domain Student360.africa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.3 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Student360.africa main page is 2.2 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. 80% 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 179.8 kB

  • Original 201.4 kB
  • After minification 147.3 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 54.1 kB, which is 27% 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 179.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Student360 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 85.1 kB

  • Original 465.9 kB
  • After minification 465.8 kB
  • After compression 380.7 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 85.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 260.9 kB
  • After minification 260.6 kB
  • After compression 239.4 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. Student360.africa has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (61%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student360. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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314 ms

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181 ms

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140 ms

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183 ms

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143 ms

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133 ms

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108 ms

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112 ms

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90 ms

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92 ms

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78 ms

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80 ms

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66 ms

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62 ms

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179 ms

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Accessibility Review

student360.africa 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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

student360.africa 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

student360.africa SEO score

91

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

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 Student360.africa 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 Student360.africa 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

student360.africa

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Student360. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: