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mensa.org.za

MENSA ZA – The High IQ Society

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing MENSA content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mensa.org.za

Mensa South Africa, part of the world's largest and oldest high-IQ society, provides stimulating exchange to its members - online and at regular events

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mensa.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 3.6 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

mensa.org.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mensa.org.za

173 ms

Sidebar2-90x645.png

54 ms

photo10.png

150 ms

White-214x24.jpg

57 ms

blogggerblock.gif

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Mensa.org.za, 10% (2 requests) were made to Feedsweep.com and 5% (1 request) were made to L.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Feedsweep.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.1 kB (43%)

Content Size

295.1 kB

After Optimization

166.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Mensa.org.za main page is 295.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 234.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 23.9 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 3.7 kB, which is 15% 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 19.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 234.6 kB
  • After minification 154.3 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. Obviously, MENSA needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.3 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 28.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

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

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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 Mensa.org.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 Mensa.org.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

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