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cstafrica.com

Innovative Products and Services | CST Africa Limited

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

832 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

858 ms

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About Website

Visit cstafrica.com now to see the best up-to-date CST Africa content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cstafrica.com

CST Africa Limited manufactures wire products; Chainlink, Razor Wire, Rock Fall Nets, Gabion Baskets & Mattresses, CST3D Panels & EPS Boards.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cstafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 832 ms and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cstafrica.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cstafrica.com

832 ms

bootstrap.css

921 ms

simple-line-icons.min.css

61 ms

k2.css

564 ms

font-awesome.min.css

434 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (86 requests) were addressed to the original Cstafrica.com, 8% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cstafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cstafrica.com main page is 4.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 63.9 kB

  • Original 79.2 kB
  • After minification 72.7 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 63.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 120.9 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. CST Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 114.8 kB
  • After compression 82.0 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 32.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 103.8 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 79.9 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. Cstafrica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (47%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CST Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

cstafrica.com SEO score

0

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 Cstafrica.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 Cstafrica.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

cstafrica.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CST Africa. 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: