Access gctonline.co.za. SMI Group (Pty) Ltd

gctonline.co.za

1064 ms

www.smigroup.co.za

1512 ms

css

25 ms

icons.style.css

532 ms

style.css

530 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gctonline.co.za, 50% (12 requests) were made to Smigroup.co.za and 42% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Smigroup.co.za.

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Gctonline.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

Original 5.7 kB
After minification 5.5 kB
After compression 1.8 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 3.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

Original 1.5 MB
After minification 1.5 MB

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. Gctonline images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 74.0 kB

Original 115.9 kB
After minification 115.9 kB
After compression 41.9 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 74.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

Original 16.3 kB
After minification 13.2 kB
After compression 3.0 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. Gctonline.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gctonline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.