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driveafrica.co.za

driveafrica.co.za

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

482 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

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Drive Africa is a online Car Rental South Africa company offering short and long-term car and 4x4 hire with unlimited kilometers no excess

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Key Findings

We analyzed Driveafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 482 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

driveafrica.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

driveafrica.co.za

482 ms

www.driveafrica.co.za

722 ms

mainstyle.css

102 ms

jquery.min.js

87 ms

fadeslideshow.js

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Driveafrica.co.za, 10% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Ajaxgeo.cartrawler.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Driveafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Driveafrica.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 977.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 70.4 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 55.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 546.4 kB
  • After minification 530.6 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. Driveafrica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 601.3 kB

  • Original 977.0 kB
  • After minification 971.4 kB
  • After compression 375.7 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 601.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 431.2 kB

  • Original 583.9 kB
  • After minification 578.9 kB
  • After compression 152.7 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. Driveafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 431.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (53%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Driveafrica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

driveafrica.co.za

driveafrica.co.za

482 ms

www.driveafrica.co.za

www.driveafrica.co.za

722 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

102 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

87 ms

fadeslideshow.js

fadeslideshow.js

204 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

77 ms

bg-page.gif

bg-page.gif

381 ms

top-nav-left.gif

top-nav-left.gif

535 ms

top-nav-right.gif

top-nav-right.gif

533 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

738 ms

enquire-now.png

enquire-now.png

737 ms

blog-link.png

blog-link.png

738 ms

deutsche.png

deutsche.png

738 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

732 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

737 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

891 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

889 ms

Google.png

Google.png

1069 ms

thumbnail-pic.gif

thumbnail-pic.gif

1267 ms

special-offer-l.jpg

special-offer-l.jpg

1020 ms

Cape-Town-tourism-logo.jpg

Cape-Town-tourism-logo.jpg

1067 ms

camper.jpg

camper.jpg

1023 ms

car-banner.jpg

car-banner.jpg

1385 ms

listing-3-h.jpg

listing-3-h.jpg

1070 ms

listing-4-h.jpg

listing-4-h.jpg

1071 ms

choose-us.jpg

choose-us.jpg

1267 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

1264 ms

banner-1.jpg

banner-1.jpg

985 ms

banner-2.jpg

banner-2.jpg

985 ms

banner-3.jpg

banner-3.jpg

1071 ms

banner-4.jpg

banner-4.jpg

1069 ms

banner-5.jpg

banner-5.jpg

1070 ms

top-nav.gif

top-nav.gif

1077 ms

blue-bak.png

blue-bak.png

1078 ms

bullet-small.gif

bullet-small.gif

1180 ms

special-top.png

special-top.png

1185 ms

special-bottom.png

special-bottom.png

1184 ms

cheap-hire.png

cheap-hire.png

1216 ms

welcome-tab.png

welcome-tab.png

1192 ms

tab-off.png

tab-off.png

1307 ms

ct_loader.js

ct_loader.js

523 ms

list-link-2.png

list-link-2.png

1317 ms

list-blok-top.png

list-blok-top.png

1284 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

370 ms

boost

boost

308 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

386 ms

all.js&version=v2.0

all.js&version=v2.0

380 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

311 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

384 ms

choosebak.jpg

choosebak.jpg

1178 ms

7411.js

7411.js

269 ms

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

sh.07f0d9bf220d07a763adad1e.html

180 ms

logos-back.jpg

logos-back.jpg

1133 ms

bottom-links-back.png

bottom-links-back.png

1162 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

962 ms

collect

collect

74 ms

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

18 ms

ctloader

ctloader

379 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

73 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

170 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

253 ms

227 ms

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

56 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

282 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

183 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

111 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

100 ms

W5F8_SL0XFawnjxHGsZjJA.ttf

W5F8_SL0XFawnjxHGsZjJA.ttf

167 ms

jot

jot

190 ms

ctwdk.css

ctwdk.css

178 ms

ct-ui-vendors.css

ct-ui-vendors.css

267 ms

ct_lang_EN.js

ct_lang_EN.js

152 ms

ct_core.js

ct_core.js

330 ms

ctconv.js

ctconv.js

174 ms

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

108 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

72 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

95 ms

SEO Factors

driveafrica.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 Driveafrica.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Driveafrica.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

driveafrica.co.za

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