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brotha.co.za

Brotha Online Magazine | Exclusive African Lifestyle Web mag

Page Load Speed

18.5 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

14.9 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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About Website

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Brotha is an interactive digital magazine that gives you the latest news on entertainment, lifestyle changes, economic trends and Brotha events held in South Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brotha.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 15.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brotha.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.brotha.co.za

3260 ms

style.css

868 ms

colour.php

1488 ms

styles.css

556 ms

nivo-slider.css

561 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Brotha.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Brotha.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 416.1 kB (56%)

Content Size

747.0 kB

After Optimization

330.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Brotha.co.za main page is 747.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 354.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 54.4 kB
  • After minification 44.3 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.1 kB, which is 19% 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 44.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 279.5 kB
  • After minification 218.1 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, Brotha needs image optimization as it can save up to 61.4 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 262.2 kB

  • Original 354.6 kB
  • After minification 344.0 kB
  • After compression 92.3 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 262.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 45.4 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Brotha.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (56%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brotha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

brotha.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 Brotha.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 Brotha.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 Brotha. 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: