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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

wiredspace.wits.ac.za

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Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wiredspace.wits.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.8 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

wiredspace.wits.ac.za performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wiredspace.wits.ac.za

1183 ms

reset.css

274 ms

base.css

537 ms

helper.css

531 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.css

542 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Wiredspace.wits.ac.za, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Wiredspace.wits.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 28.6 kB (55%)

Content Size

51.9 kB

After Optimization

23.3 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Wiredspace.wits.ac.za main page is 51.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 34.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 3.8 kB, which is 11% 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 28.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wi ReD Space Wits. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wiredspace.wits.ac.za

wiredspace.wits.ac.za

1183 ms

reset.css

reset.css

274 ms

base.css

base.css

537 ms

helper.css

helper.css

531 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.css

542 ms

style.css

style.css

540 ms

authority-control.css

authority-control.css

540 ms

media.css

media.css

543 ms

modernizr-1.7.min.js

modernizr-1.7.min.js

804 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.min.js

1333 ms

wirelogo.png

wirelogo.png

1076 ms

mime.png

mime.png

279 ms

feed.png

feed.png

277 ms

@mirelogo-small.png

@mirelogo-small.png

273 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

handheld.css

handheld.css

275 ms

print.css

print.css

272 ms

Accessibility Review

wiredspace.wits.ac.za accessibility score

48

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

wiredspace.wits.ac.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

wiredspace.wits.ac.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wiredspace.wits.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 Wiredspace.wits.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

wiredspace.wits.ac.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wi ReD Space Wits. 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: