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selfservice.dstv.com

MyDStv - DStv Self Service: Manage your viewing, check your balance & more

Page Load Speed

27.7 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

25.5 sec

Page Rendered

502 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selfservice.dstv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 26 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

selfservice.dstv.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

selfservice.dstv.com

1690 ms

5.js

233 ms

satelliteLib-917c37a556be239ce0a3567dedc3a9243241d0c1.js

414 ms

svgspritecss

573 ms

mastercss

1438 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Selfservice.dstv.com, 42% (32 requests) were made to Cdn.dstv.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.3 sec) relates to the external source Connect.dstv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 475.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

776.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Selfservice.dstv.com main page is 1.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 558.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 76.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 30.2 kB, which is 28% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 91.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 558.8 kB
  • After minification 552.9 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. Self Service DStv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 359.7 kB

  • Original 556.2 kB
  • After minification 553.9 kB
  • After compression 196.4 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 359.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 30.3 kB
  • After minification 30.3 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Selfservice.dstv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (53%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Self Service DStv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

selfservice.dstv.com

selfservice.dstv.com

1690 ms

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233 ms

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573 ms

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1438 ms

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1611 ms

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16326 ms

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16323 ms

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860 ms

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1183 ms

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946 ms

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SEO Factors

selfservice.dstv.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Selfservice.dstv.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Selfservice.dstv.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

selfservice.dstv.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Self Service DStv. 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: