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sports24.co.za

935 ms

www.sport24.co.za

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menu.min.css

434 ms

3Col468300160.css

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jquery.fancybox.css

377 ms

Our browser made a total of 215 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sports24.co.za, 34% (74 requests) were made to Sport24.co.za and 22% (48 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Images.prop24.com.

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

848.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Sports24.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 879.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 168.4 kB

Original 211.7 kB
After minification 184.7 kB
After compression 43.3 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 27.0 kB, which is 13% 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 168.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 331.7 kB

Original 879.9 kB
After minification 548.2 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. Obviously, Sports 24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 331.7 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 447.0 kB

Original 667.6 kB
After minification 618.6 kB
After compression 220.6 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 447.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 202.4 kB

Original 239.1 kB
After minification 211.7 kB
After compression 36.7 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. Sports24.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Now

210

After Optimization

117

The browser has sent 210 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.