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gun.co.za

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Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

5.3 sec

Resources Loaded

13.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gun.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.3 sec and then it took 15.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gun.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gun.co.za

5299 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

569 ms

frontend.css

572 ms

bbpress.css

571 ms

buddypress.css

587 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Gun.co.za, 5% (5 requests) were made to Gravatar.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gun.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (57%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Gun.co.za main page is 4.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 188.7 kB
  • After minification 171.1 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 163.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Gun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 840.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 361.8 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 840.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 249.2 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. Gun.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

gun.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gun.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Gun.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 Gun. 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: