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persfin.co.za

IOL | News that Connects South Africans

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Persfin.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

persfin.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

persfin.co.za

26 ms

personal-finance

18 ms

personal-finance

605 ms

gpt.js

168 ms

client.8ce60b9e.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Persfin.co.za, 59% (52 requests) were made to Iol.co.za and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (605 ms) relates to the external source Iol.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.2 kB (40%)

Content Size

759.9 kB

After Optimization

459.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Persfin.co.za main page is 759.9 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. 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. Javascripts take 608.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 125.7 kB

  • Original 151.2 kB
  • After minification 149.2 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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 125.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 174.5 kB

  • Original 608.3 kB
  • After minification 608.3 kB
  • After compression 433.8 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 174.5 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 375 B
  • After minification 375 B
  • After compression 319 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. Persfin.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (85%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Persfin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Persfin.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 Persfin.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 data is detected on the main page of Persfin. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: