Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

332 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

734 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Catapult.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 332 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

catapult.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

catapult.co.za

332 ms

www.newgroupcreate.co.za

1299 ms

analytics.js

52 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

264 ms

styles.css

524 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Catapult.co.za, 75% (72 requests) were made to Newgroupcreate.co.za and 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Newgroupcreate.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Catapult.co.za main page is 3.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 50.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Catapult images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 753.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 884.6 kB
  • After compression 274.4 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 753.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 472.3 kB

  • Original 555.6 kB
  • After minification 473.0 kB
  • After compression 83.3 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. Catapult.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 472.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (67%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Catapult. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

catapult.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Catapult.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Catapult.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 data is detected on the main page of Catapult. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: