Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

102 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stud.ufs.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stud.ufs.ac.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stud.ufs.ac.za

2387 ms

ext-all.css

2091 ms

ext-base.js

1055 ms

ext-all.js

3973 ms

background.png

785 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stud.ufs.ac.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Stud.ufs.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

508.7 kB

After Optimization

334.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Stud.ufs.ac.za main page is 508.7 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 327.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 10.7 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. 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 7.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 327.5 kB
  • After minification 301.4 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. Stud Ufs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 20.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 137.5 kB
  • After minification 111.3 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Stud.ufs.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stud Ufs. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

stud.ufs.ac.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stud.ufs.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Stud.ufs.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

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