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ecasa.co.za

ECASA - Electrical Contractors Association (South Africa)

Page Load Speed

18.3 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

15.4 sec

Page Rendered

624 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecasa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 16.1 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

ecasa.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ecasa.co.za

2218 ms

component.css

269 ms

global.css

517 ms

default.css

521 ms

jquery-ui.css

524 ms

Our browser made a total of 183 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Ecasa.co.za, 14% (25 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 13% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecasa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 855.9 kB (14%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Ecasa.co.za main page is 6.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 67.7 kB

  • Original 92.9 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 15.2 kB, which is 16% 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 67.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 170.2 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. ECASA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 439.3 kB

  • Original 626.9 kB
  • After minification 574.8 kB
  • After compression 187.7 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 439.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 178.7 kB

  • Original 216.3 kB
  • After minification 200.8 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. Ecasa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (52%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ECASA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ecasa.co.za 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 Ecasa.co.za 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 Ecasa.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 description is not detected on the main page of ECASA. 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: