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draaihoek.com

Draaihoek Lodge & Restaurant — Luxury Accommodation & Nature Reserve, South Africa

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Draaihoek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 5.5 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

draaihoek.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.draaihoek.com

2343 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

209 ms

widget.css

262 ms

shadowbox.css

263 ms

extras.css

274 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Draaihoek.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Draaihoek.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 289.6 kB (39%)

Content Size

748.5 kB

After Optimization

458.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Draaihoek.com main page is 748.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 326.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 24.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 326.2 kB
  • After minification 315.9 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. Draaihoek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 307.5 kB
  • After minification 298.3 kB
  • After compression 116.7 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 190.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 64.3 kB

  • Original 82.9 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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. Draaihoek.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (55%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Draaihoek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

draaihoek.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 Draaihoek.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 Draaihoek.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 Draaihoek. 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: