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investmentgateway.co.za

Insurance Gateway » Home > Independant Online Financial Services Portal

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

901 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

132 ms

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About Website

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A web portal for the insurance industry of South Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Investmentgateway.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 901 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

investmentgateway.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

investmentgateway.co.za

901 ms

style.php

250 ms

javascript.php

474 ms

topbg.gif

246 ms

logo.gif

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Investmentgateway.co.za, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (937 ms) belongs to the original domain Investmentgateway.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

84.7 kB

After Optimization

65.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Investmentgateway.co.za main page is 84.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 56.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 1.5 kB, which is 14% 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 8.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 45.6 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. Obviously, Investment Gateway needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.3 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

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 5 (36%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Investment Gateway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

investmentgateway.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 Investmentgateway.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 Investmentgateway.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 Investment Gateway. 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: