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capetown-travel.co.za

Cape Town Accommodation - South Africa Travel

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capetown-travel.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capetown-travel.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

capetown-travel.co.za

236 ms

cape-town.html

4368 ms

css.css

55 ms

brand

16 ms

show_ads.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Capetown-travel.co.za, 39% (23 requests) were made to Southafricatravel.co.za and 17% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Southafricatravel.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

307.4 kB

After Optimization

249.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Capetown-travel.co.za main page is 307.4 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. Images take 216.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 28.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 216.1 kB
  • After minification 206.3 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 Town Travel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 389 B

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 23.1 kB
  • After minification 16.9 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Capetown-travel.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Town Travel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

capetown-travel.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 Capetown-travel.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 Capetown-travel.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 Town Travel. 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: