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cape-town.com

Account Suspended

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

474 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cape-town.com page load time and found that the first response time was 474 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cape-town.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cape-town.com

474 ms

stylesheet.css

1209 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

1279 ms

thickbox-compressed.js

1210 ms

thickbox.css

1211 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Cape-town.com, 95% (37 requests) were made to Safarilodges.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Safarilodges.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Cape-town.com main page is 4.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 15.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 322.1 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Cape Town images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 831 B

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 465 B

  • Original 3.4 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Cape-town.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 465 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (8%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Town. 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.

SEO Factors

cape-town.com 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 Cape-town.com 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 Cape-town.com 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 Cape Town. 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: