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sars.gov.za

SARS Home | South African Revenue Service

Page Load Speed

43 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

34.8 sec

Page Rendered

6.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sars.gov.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 41.6 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. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

sars.gov.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sars.gov.za

1377 ms

www.sars.gov.za

1226 ms

default.aspx

402 ms

gtm.js

661 ms

controls.css

406 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Sars.gov.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Tools.sars.gov.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Stc14.u5e.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (59%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sars.gov.za main page is 4.6 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. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 80.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. SARS Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 539.6 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 1.7 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 870.1 kB

  • Original 994.7 kB
  • After minification 732.1 kB
  • After compression 124.5 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. Sars.gov.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 870.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (62%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SARS 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sars.gov.za

sars.gov.za

1377 ms

www.sars.gov.za

www.sars.gov.za

1226 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

402 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

661 ms

controls.css

controls.css

406 ms

Menu.css

Menu.css

882 ms

search.css

search.css

986 ms

corev4.css

corev4.css

1539 ms

jquery-jvectormap.css

jquery-jvectormap.css

1343 ms

sarscorev4.css

sarscorev4.css

1975 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

1975 ms

latestNewsJQ.js

latestNewsJQ.js

1536 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1735 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1973 ms

blank.js

blank.js

2678 ms

global.css

global.css

2631 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

2599 ms

slides.min.jquery.js

slides.min.jquery.js

2795 ms

init.js

init.js

268 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

386 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

251 ms

bgximg.png

bgximg.png

806 ms

search-button.jpg

search-button.jpg

664 ms

gosearch15.png

gosearch15.png

583 ms

SARS-LOGO.png

SARS-LOGO.png

633 ms

head-info-icon.gif

head-info-icon.gif

633 ms

dropdown.gif

dropdown.gif

633 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

632 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

708 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

708 ms

whitearrow.png

whitearrow.png

708 ms

you_tube-32.png

you_tube-32.png

708 ms

fb_32.png

fb_32.png

758 ms

rss-32.png

rss-32.png

725 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

1613 ms

arrow-prev.jpg

arrow-prev.jpg

823 ms

arrow-next.jpg

arrow-next.jpg

1351 ms

banner2.jpg

banner2.jpg

1675 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

1608 ms

onlineservices.gif

onlineservices.gif

1578 ms

Bend%20banner%20200x400_SARS%20website.jpg

Bend%20banner%20200x400_SARS%20website.jpg

1689 ms

Icon_Publication.jpg

Icon_Publication.jpg

1562 ms

findaform.jpg

findaform.jpg

1611 ms

findataxrate.jpg

findataxrate.jpg

1599 ms

findabranch.jpg

findabranch.jpg

1657 ms

findapublication.jpg

findapublication.jpg

1658 ms

findanfaq.jpg

findanfaq.jpg

1654 ms

reportascam.jpg

reportascam.jpg

1644 ms

learntax.jpg

learntax.jpg

1638 ms

scam-alert.jpg

scam-alert.jpg

4895 ms

footerlogo.gif

footerlogo.gif

1916 ms

socialmedia.gif

socialmedia.gif

1980 ms

POLLS.aspx

POLLS.aspx

2541 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

550 ms

webtools-main.css

webtools-main.css

472 ms

CXAInsert.js

CXAInsert.js

545 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

905 ms

collect

collect

873 ms

core.js

core.js

774 ms

sp.core.js

sp.core.js

773 ms

ScriptResx.ashx

ScriptResx.ashx

704 ms

cui.js

cui.js

877 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

481 ms

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castvote86.png

637 ms

session.js

session.js

20203 ms

JavascriptInsert.js

JavascriptInsert.js

20202 ms

collect

collect

94 ms

sp.ui.dialog.js

sp.ui.dialog.js

805 ms

mediaplayer.js

mediaplayer.js

567 ms

search.js

search.js

634 ms

sp.runtime.js

sp.runtime.js

591 ms

sp.js

sp.js

262 ms

inplview.js

inplview.js

455 ms

sp.ribbon.js

sp.ribbon.js

259 ms

ScriptResx.ashx

ScriptResx.ashx

332 ms

mdn.js

mdn.js

332 ms

SEO Factors

sars.gov.za SEO score

0

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 Sars.gov.za 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 Sars.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

sars.gov.za

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