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capegallery.co.za

The Cape Gallery , South African artworks

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

749 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

352 ms

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About Website

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The Cape Gallery official website, dealers in South African Paintings, Sculptures and Ceramics. The Cape Gallery is based on 60 Church Street, is set in the heart of the old city of Cape Town, South A...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capegallery.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 749 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capegallery.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

capegallery.co.za

749 ms

stylesheet.css

245 ms

subscribe01.gif

85 ms

logo.gif

244 ms

spacer.gif

470 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Capegallery.co.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Graphicmail.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Capegallery.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

341.7 kB

After Optimization

301.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Capegallery.co.za main page is 341.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 293.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 41.7 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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. 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 35.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 197 B

  • Original 293.1 kB
  • After minification 292.9 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. Cape Gallery images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 602 B

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. Capegallery.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (56%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Gallery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

capegallery.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Capegallery.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Capegallery.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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