Report Summary

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uwcsoph.co.za

Home - University of the Western Cape - School of Public Health

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

72 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uwcsoph.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uwcsoph.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

uwcsoph.co.za

1123 ms

uwcsoph.co.za

1546 ms

common.css

387 ms

common.js

773 ms

box_top_left.gif

387 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Uwcsoph.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Uwcsoph.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Uwcsoph.co.za main page is 2.9 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 981 B

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 4.0 kB, which is 51% 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 7.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 130.7 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Uwcsoph images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 133.5 kB
  • After minification 132.1 kB
  • After compression 112.8 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 20.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 196.3 kB
  • After minification 195.9 kB
  • After compression 173.2 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. Uwcsoph.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (57%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

6

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

SEO Factors

uwcsoph.co.za SEO score

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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 Uwcsoph.co.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 Uwcsoph.co.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

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