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bookaplace.co.za

Page Load Speed

22.8 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

21.6 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

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Accommodation Directory of South Africa. Includes Availability Calendars, Discounts, and Maps. Over 5,000 listed establishments.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bookaplace.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 21.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bookaplace.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bookaplace.co.za

1001 ms

bp.css

463 ms

Weather.gif

479 ms

BPLogo.gif

680 ms

Largest.gif

684 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Bookaplace.co.za, 20% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 20% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Earthwire.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.1 kB (17%)

Content Size

65.4 kB

After Optimization

54.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bookaplace.co.za main page is 65.4 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. Images take 38.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 8.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 35.5 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. Bookaplace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 149 B

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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.

CSS Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 178 B

  • Original 358 B
  • After minification 298 B
  • After compression 180 B

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. Bookaplace.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178 B or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bookaplace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bookaplace.co.za

bookaplace.co.za

1001 ms

bp.css

bp.css

463 ms

Weather.gif

Weather.gif

479 ms

BPLogo.gif

BPLogo.gif

680 ms

Largest.gif

Largest.gif

684 ms

TM90.jpg

TM90.jpg

958 ms

getnews_africa.js

getnews_africa.js

20018 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

9 ms

SA.gif

SA.gif

732 ms

ca-pub-3297315044160065.js

ca-pub-3297315044160065.js

65 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

137 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

71 ms

ads

ads

265 ms

osd.js

osd.js

7 ms

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59 ms

abg.js

abg.js

98 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

115 ms

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111 ms

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36 ms

x_button_blue2.png

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38 ms

SEO Factors

bookaplace.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bookaplace.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 Bookaplace.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

bookaplace.co.za

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