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capetownchamber.com

Home Page - Cape Chamber of Commerce

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

750 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

475 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capetownchamber.com page load time and found that the first response time was 750 ms and then it took 6.1 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

capetownchamber.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

capetownchamber.com

750 ms

capechamber.co.za

730 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

255 ms

dashicons.min.css

328 ms

espresso_default.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 170 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Capetownchamber.com, 69% (117 requests) were made to Capechamber.co.za and 9% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Corp.capechamber.auric-consulting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (59%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Capetownchamber.com main page is 3.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 198.8 kB

  • Original 248.7 kB
  • After minification 231.7 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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 198.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 968.3 kB
  • After minification 934.9 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 Town Chamber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 772.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 863.0 kB
  • After compression 277.8 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 772.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 169.5 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. Capetownchamber.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (58%)

Requests Now

150

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 150 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Town Chamber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

capetownchamber.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 Capetownchamber.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 Capetownchamber.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 Chamber. 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: