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Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Army content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about army.mil.za

The Portal of the SA Army - Department of Defence - South Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Army.mil.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 6.1 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

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Network Requests Diagram

army.mil.za

2045 ms

army.css

748 ms

menu.css

508 ms

menu.js

1030 ms

items.js

768 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Army.mil.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Army.mil.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 134.3 kB (26%)

Content Size

506.7 kB

After Optimization

372.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Army.mil.za main page is 506.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 374.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 102.4 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 29.9 kB, which is 29% 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 94.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 374.2 kB
  • After minification 356.2 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. Army images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 18.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Army.mil.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (30%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Army. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

army.mil.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Army.mil.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 Army.mil.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

army.mil.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Army. 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: