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citysearch.yellowpages.co.za

Eat Play Shop | HereNow

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citysearch.yellowpages.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 6.4 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

citysearch.yellowpages.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

home.htm

2446 ms

reset-fonts-grids.css

511 ms

base-min.css

513 ms

tabview.css

521 ms

button.css

518 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Citysearch.yellowpages.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Citysearchblog.yellowpages.co.za and 3% (2 requests) were made to S.effectivemeasure.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Citysearch.yellowpages.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 500.2 kB (51%)

Content Size

977.7 kB

After Optimization

477.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Citysearch.yellowpages.co.za main page is 977.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 569.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.3 kB, which is 18% 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 33.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 290.6 kB
  • After minification 280.7 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. Citysearch Yellowpages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 395.4 kB

  • Original 569.8 kB
  • After minification 545.9 kB
  • After compression 174.5 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 395.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.6 kB

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 60.4 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. Citysearch.yellowpages.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (54%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citysearch Yellowpages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

citysearch.yellowpages.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 Citysearch.yellowpages.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 Citysearch.yellowpages.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 Citysearch Yellowpages. 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: