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gpaa.gov.za

The GPAA - Government Pensions Administration Agency - Republic of South Africa

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

146 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gpaa.gov.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gpaa.gov.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

gpaa.gov.za

1567 ms

zmm1vvr.js

155 ms

styles.css

2604 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

1061 ms

main.js

2370 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Gpaa.gov.za, 12% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Gpaa.gov.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 369.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

897.6 kB

After Optimization

527.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gpaa.gov.za main page is 897.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 442.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 4.2 kB, which is 22% 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 15.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 442.4 kB
  • After minification 437.1 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. GPAA Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 194.3 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 69.7 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 124.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 224.4 kB

  • Original 241.1 kB
  • After minification 120.1 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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. Gpaa.gov.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.4 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GPAA Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gpaa.gov.za

gpaa.gov.za

1567 ms

zmm1vvr.js

zmm1vvr.js

155 ms

styles.css

styles.css

2604 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

1061 ms

main.js

main.js

2370 ms

logo2.jpg

logo2.jpg

525 ms

flag.png

flag.png

525 ms

brown-noise.jpg

brown-noise.jpg

530 ms

HRD2016.jpg

HRD2016.jpg

1844 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

2899 ms

77.jpg

77.jpg

1569 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1838 ms

gpaa.jpg

gpaa.jpg

1050 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1837 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

rgbawhite.png

rgbawhite.png

1184 ms

SEO Factors

gpaa.gov.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 Gpaa.gov.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 Gpaa.gov.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

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