Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Asametals.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 6.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

asametals.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

asametals.co.za

2512 ms

skitter.styles.css

274 ms

mootools-core.js

720 ms

core.js

531 ms

caption.js

497 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Asametals.co.za, 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Asametals.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 648.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Asametals.co.za main page is 3.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 12.4 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 9.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 168.7 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Asametals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 398.5 kB

  • Original 548.9 kB
  • After minification 517.6 kB
  • After compression 150.5 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 398.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Asametals.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (43%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Asametals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

asametals.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Asametals.co.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Asametals.co.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 Asametals. 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: