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SEO Score69/100
Average SEO score of top 100 sites: 75%
Your site scored 69/100, below the 75 average for top sites. We found 13 issues to fix, and clearing them is how you move up.
13 Failed
6 Warnings
39 Passed
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Issues to fix
HIGH
To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should aim for a Largest Contentful Paint duration of 2.5 seconds or less.
DetailsHIGH
Consider using structured data in your webpage as it can help search engines gain a better understanding of your content.
DetailsHIGH
To improve the website experience for your visitors, it is recommended to eliminate any render-blocking resources on this webpage.
DetailsHIGH
Using images in a modern format can significantly reduce the file size and improve the loading speed of a webpage, providing a better user experience and potentially increasing engagement.
DetailsHIGH
Users may abandon pages that take longer than 5 seconds to load, resulting in a potential loss of up to 50% of visitors. Faster loading pages can lead to increased traffic, better conversions, and higher sales.
DetailsHIGH
Consider reducing the HTML size to improve loading times and retain visitors.
DetailsHIGH
By creating a custom 404 error page with helpful links and information, users are more likely to stay on the site and continue to explore.
DetailsMEDIUM
To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should aim for a First Contentful Paint value of 1.8 seconds or less.
DetailsMEDIUM
Serve properly sized images to reduce page loading times and to improve user's experience.
DetailsMEDIUM
Reducing the Document Object Model (DOM) size can lead to faster page loading times, improved site performance, and better user experience by decreasing the amount of time it takes for the browser to process and render the page.
DetailsLOW
Using more than 20 HTTP requests on a webpage can negatively impact the loading time.
DetailsLOW
Strip out any unnecessary metadata to improve loading time, security, and privacy. Metadata should not exceed 16% of the image size.
DetailsCommon SEO issues
Score:84
Failed:1
Warnings:3
Passed:15
Meta Title Test
100% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using a title tag with a length of 79 characters. While there's no target number of characters, titles should be descriptive and concise. We recommend using a title with a length between 20 - 60 characters in order to fit Google Search results that have a 600-pixel limit.
Meta Description Test
92% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using a meta description tag.
Desktop version
https://www.gibs.co.za/
Mobile version
https://www.gibs.co.za/
There is likely no optimal keyword density (search engine algorithms have evolved beyond keyword density metrics as a significant ranking factor). It can be useful, however, to note which keywords appear most often on your page and if they reflect the intended topic of your page. More importantly, the keywords on your page should appear within natural sounding and grammatically correct copy.
Keywords Usage Test
48% of top 100 sites passed
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The most common keywords of this webpage are distributed well across the important HTML tags. This helps search engines to properly identify the topic of this webpage.
abdul
academic
africa
african
alum
alumni
appointment
august
barnard
board
building
business
campus
career
celebrate
celebrating
chief
coaching
congratulations
contact
course
courses
creative
currency
customer
date
development
digital
director
driven
education
email
enterprise
entrepreneurship
events
executive
experience
expert
forums
ganie
gibs
global
gradwell
hassim
helena
impact
information
insights
join
july
knowledge
latest
lead
leaders
leadership
leading
lecture
making
manufacturing
mike
minting
news
newsletter
officer
online
organisations
pdba
position
prestigious
prof
professional
programme
programmes
quality
research
saharan
school
schools
second
secured
services
session
skills
south
standing
start
strengthens
submit
sunshine
surname
symposium
technical
thinking
time
turns
upcoming
view
women
world
years
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Robots.txt Test
99% of top 100 sites passed
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This website is using a robots.txt file.
Sitemap Test
83% of top 100 sites passed
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This website has a sitemap file.
Image Alt Test
78% of top 100 sites passed
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This webpage is using "img" tags with empty or missing "alt" attribute!
Responsive Image Test
29% of top 100 sites passed
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Not all images in this webpage are properly sized! This webpage is serving images that are larger than needed for the size of the user's viewport.
Image Aspect Ratio Test
75% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
All image display dimensions match the natural aspect ratio.
Google Analytics Test
72% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using Google Analytics.
Favicon Test
100% of top 100 sites passed
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This website appears to have a favicon.
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JS Error Test
83% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
There are no severe JavaScript errors on this webpage.
Console Errors Test
27% of top 100 sites passed
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This webpage has some warnings caught by the Chrome DevTools Console!
Charset Declaration Test
96% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage has a character encoding declaration.
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Speed optimizations
Score:52
Failed:9
Warnings:3
Passed:8
HTML Page Size Test
23% of top 100 sites passed
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The size of this webpage's HTML is 206.12 Kb, and is greater than the average size of 33 Kb! This can lead to slower loading times, lost visitors, and decreased revenue. Good steps to reduce HTML size include: using HTML compression, CSS layouts, external style sheets, and moving javascript to external files.
DOM Size Test
56% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The Document Object Model (DOM) of this webpage has 2,037 nodes which is greater than the recommended value of 1,500 nodes! A large DOM size negatively affects site performance and increases the page load time.
HTML Compression/GZIP Test
99% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is successfully compressed using br compression on your code. The HTML code is compressed from 637.83 Kb to 206.12 Kb (68% size savings). This helps ensure a faster loading webpage and improved user experience.
Site Loading Speed Test
71% of top 100 sites passed
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The loading time of this webpage (measured from N. Virginia, US) is around 6.51 seconds and is greater than the average loading speed which is 5 seconds!
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JS Execution Time Test
53% of top 100 sites passed
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The JavaScript code used by this webpage is executed in more than 2 seconds!
Page Objects Test
7% of top 100 sites passed
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This webpage is using more than 20 http requests, which can slow down page loading and negatively impact user experience!
Content size by content type
Content type
Percent
Size
other
45.5 %
2.67 Mb
javascript
35.6 %
2.09 Mb
image
12.0 %
723.28 Kb
font
4.3 %
259.05 Kb
css
1.8 %
107.03 Kb
html
0.8 %
46.96 Kb
TOTAL
100%
5.87 Mb
Requests by content type
Content type
Percent
Requests
javascript
78.9 %
251
other
11.3 %
36
image
3.8 %
12
font
2.8 %
9
css
2.2 %
7
html
0.9 %
3
TOTAL
100%
318
Content size by domain
Domain
Percent
Size
content.gibs.co.za
55.4 %
3.25 Mb
gibs.co.za
16.0 %
964.61 Kb
gstatic.com
13.8 %
831.41 Kb
googletagmanager.com
9.5 %
569.18 Kb
gibs-cdn-bdbdfqdgfbbac2a5.a03.azurefd.net
1.9 %
114.10 Kb
connect.facebook.net
1.7 %
100.11 Kb
google.com
0.7 %
43.47 Kb
fonts.gstatic.com
0.4 %
21.67 Kb
snap.licdn.com
0.3 %
18.19 Kb
scripts.clarity.ms
0.2 %
13.25 Kb
Other
0.1 %
7.80 Kb
TOTAL
100%
5.87 Mb
Requests by domain
Domain
Percent
Requests
gibs.co.za
79.9 %
254
gibs-cdn-bdbdfqdgfbbac2a5.a03.azurefd.net
6.3 %
20
content.gibs.co.za
4.1 %
13
googletagmanager.com
1.6 %
5
google.com
1.3 %
4
px.ads.linkedin.com
1.3 %
4
gstatic.com
0.9 %
3
clarity.ms
0.6 %
2
connect.facebook.net
0.6 %
2
stats.g.doubleclick.net
0.6 %
2
Other
2.8 %
9
TOTAL
100%
318
CDN Usage Test
95% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is not serving all resources (images, javascript and css) from CDNs!
Modern Image Format Test
43% of top 100 sites passed
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Image Metadata Test
72% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using images with large metadata (more than 16% of the image size)! Stripping out unnecessary metadata tags can improve not only the loading time but also the security and privacy of a webpage.
Image Caching Test
95% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This website is using cache headers for images and the browsers will display these images from the cache.
JavaScript Caching Test
96% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using cache headers for all JavaScript resources.
CSS Caching Test
98% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using cache headers for all CSS resources.
JavaScript Minification Test
98% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
All JavaScript files used by this webpage are minified.
CSS Minification Test
100% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
All CSS resources used by this webpage are minified.
Render Blocking Resources Test
15% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using render blocking resources! Eliminating render-blocking resources can help this webpage to load significantly faster and will improve the website experience for your visitors.
URL Redirects Test
97% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This URL performed 1 redirects! While redirects are typically not advisable (as they can affect search engine indexing issues and adversely affect site loading time), one redirect may be acceptable, particularly if the URL is redirecting from a non-www version to its www version, or vice-versa.
Time To First Byte Test
99% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The Time To First Byte value of this webpage is 0.460 seconds. To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should strive to have a TTFB of 0.8 seconds or less.
0.46 s
0.8 s
1.8 s
First Contentful Paint Test
90% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The First Contentful Paint value of this webpage is 10.533 seconds. To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should strive to have a First Contentful Paint value of 1.8 seconds or less.
10.533 s
1.8 s
3 s
Largest Contentful Paint Test
77% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The Largest Contentful Paint duration of this webpage is 9.57 seconds. To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should strive to have Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less.
9.57 s
2.5 s
4 s
Largest Contentful Paint element within the viewport:
<div id="hero-background" class="hero-background" style="background-image: url("https://content.gibs.co.za/...">
Cumulative Layout Shift Test
91% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The CLS score of this webpage is 0.0000. To provide a good user experience, Google recommends that sites should strive to have a CLS score of 0.1 or less.
0
0.1
0.25
Server and security
Score:100
Failed:0
Warnings:0
Passed:7
URL Canonicalization Test
93% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
https://www.gibs.co.za/ and https://gibs.co.za/ resolve to the same URL.
SSL Checker and HTTPS Test
100% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This website is successfully using HTTPS, a secure communication protocol over the Internet.
The certificate is not used before the activation date.
The certificate has not expired.
The hostname "www.gibs.co.za" is correctly listed in the certificate.
The certificate should be trusted by all major web browsers.
The certificate was not revoked.
The certificate was signed with a secure hash.
Certificate Chain:
Server certificate
Common Name
www.gibs.co.za
Subject Alternative Names
www.gibs.co.za
Not Valid Before
Mon, May 26, 2025 at 12:00:00 AM UTC
Not Valid After
Wed, November 26, 2025 at 11:59:59 PM UTC
Signature Algorithm
sha256WithRsaEncryption
Issuer
GeoTrust Global TLS RSA4096 SHA256 2022 CA1
Intermediate certificate
Common Name
GeoTrust Global TLS RSA4096 SHA256 2022 CA1
Organization
DigiCert, Inc.
Location
US
Not Valid Before
Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM UTC
Not Valid After
Sun, November 9, 2031 at 11:59:59 PM UTC
Signature Algorithm
sha256WithRsaEncryption
Issuer
DigiCert Global Root CA
Root certificate
Common Name
DigiCert Global Root CA
Organization
DigiCert Inc
Location
US
Not Valid Before
Fri, November 10, 2006 at 12:00:00 AM UTC
Not Valid After
Mon, November 10, 2031 at 12:00:00 AM UTC
Signature Algorithm
sha1WithRsaEncryption
Issuer
DigiCert Global Root CA
Mixed Content Test (HTTP over HTTPS)
100% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage does not use mixed content - both the initial HTML and all other resources are loaded over HTTPS.
HTTP2 Test
99% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using the HTTP/2 protocol.
HSTS Test
84% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using the Strict-Transport-Security header.
strict-transport-security:max-age=31536000; includesubdomains
Plaintext Emails Test
97% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage does not include email addresses in plaintext.
Unsafe Cross-Origin Links Test
45% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is not using target="_blank" links without rel="noopener" or rel="noreferrer" attribute.
Mobile usability
Score:100
Failed:0
Warnings:0
Passed:3
Meta Viewport Test
92% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using a viewport meta tag.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />Media Query Responsive Test
98% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is using CSS media queries, which is the base for responsive design functionalities.
Advanced SEO
Score:35
Failed:3
Warnings:0
Passed:6
Structured Data Test
66% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage doesn't take the advantages of HTML Microdata or JSON-LD specifications in order to use structured data! View Google's guide for getting started with structured data.
Custom 404 Error Page Test
80% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This website is not using a custom 404 error page! Default 404 error pages result in a poor experience - it can mislead users into thinking an entire site is down or broken, greatly increases the chance they leave the website entirely, and looks unprofessional. We recommend to have a custom 404 error page in order to improve the website's user experience by letting users know that only a specific page is missing/broken (and not the entire site), providing them helpful links, the opportunity to report bugs, and potentially track the source of broken links.
Meta Refresh Test
98% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This webpage is not using a meta refresh tag.
SPF Records Test
94% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
This DNS server is using an SPF record.
v=spf1 redirect=_std3yrswo.sdmarc.net
Ads.txt Validation Test
67% of top 100 sites passed
This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months). Failing a test that a high percentage of top websites are passing may indicate an industry best practice that you should be fixing.
The request of ads.txt file has an unexpected Content-Type header: text/html; charset=utf-8. In order for this resource to be easily accessed by the DSPs and advertisers, its Content-Type header should be text/plain or text/plain; charset=utf-8.
