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4x4hire.co.za

4x4 Hire | Simplified 4x4 Rental | South Africa, Namibia & Botswana

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

799 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4x4hire.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 799 ms and then it took 7.2 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

4x4hire.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

4x4hire.co.za

799 ms

www.4x4hire.co.za

797 ms

www.4x4hire.co.za

1128 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

790 ms

ddaccordion.js

786 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original 4x4hire.co.za, 9% (5 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain 4x4hire.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.3 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

792.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 4x4hire.co.za main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 630.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 58.5 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 81.8 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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 58.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 542.7 kB
  • After minification 538.5 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. 4x4 Hire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 409.3 kB

  • Original 630.7 kB
  • After minification 609.7 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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 409.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 52.7 kB
  • After minification 42.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. 4x4hire.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (41%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4x4 Hire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

4x4hire.co.za

4x4hire.co.za

799 ms

www.4x4hire.co.za

www.4x4hire.co.za

797 ms

www.4x4hire.co.za

www.4x4hire.co.za

1128 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

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790 ms

ddaccordion.js

ddaccordion.js

786 ms

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807 ms

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805 ms

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813 ms

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814 ms

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1046 ms

style.css

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1052 ms

addthis_widget.js

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9 ms

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314 ms

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1500 ms

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1501 ms

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1268 ms

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1500 ms

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1530 ms

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ga.js

76 ms

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12 ms

like.php

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549 ms

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614 ms

SEO Factors

4x4hire.co.za SEO score

0

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 4x4hire.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 4x4hire.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 4x4 Hire. 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: