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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

forms.uct.ac.za

UCT Administrative Forms

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forms.uct.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.4 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

forms.uct.ac.za performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forms.uct.ac.za

1897 ms

top_banner_fill.png

475 ms

top_banner.png

716 ms

top_banner1.png

484 ms

nav_fill_back.png

473 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Forms.uct.ac.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Forms.uct.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.8 kB (62%)

Content Size

207.1 kB

After Optimization

78.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Forms.uct.ac.za main page is 207.1 kB. 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 154.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 125.4 kB

  • Original 154.5 kB
  • After minification 143.8 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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 125.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 49.2 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. Forms UCT images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forms UCT. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

forms.uct.ac.za

forms.uct.ac.za

1897 ms

top_banner_fill.png

top_banner_fill.png

475 ms

top_banner.png

top_banner.png

716 ms

top_banner1.png

top_banner1.png

484 ms

nav_fill_back.png

nav_fill_back.png

473 ms

nav_fill.png

nav_fill.png

474 ms

top.gif

top.gif

716 ms

servicenow.gif

servicenow.gif

489 ms

sap.gif

sap.gif

241 ms

Accessibility Review

forms.uct.ac.za accessibility score

71

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

forms.uct.ac.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

forms.uct.ac.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forms.uct.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Forms.uct.ac.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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