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mitchellcotts.co.za

Mitchell Cotts | Sturrock Grindrod Maritime

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

443 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

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Mitchell Cotts. A firm commitment to service excellence. Mitchell Cotts Maritime has been operating in South Africa as an established Ships Agency company since 1895 is now part of the Sturrock Grindr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mitchellcotts.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 443 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mitchellcotts.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

mitchellcotts.co.za

443 ms

mitchell-cotts

1102 ms

main.css

194 ms

conditionizr.min.js

182 ms

modernizr.min.js

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mitchellcotts.co.za, 93% (37 requests) were made to Sturrockgrindrod.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Sturrockgrindrod.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 291.6 kB (44%)

Content Size

667.0 kB

After Optimization

375.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Mitchellcotts.co.za main page is 667.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 301.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 13.4 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 2.3 kB, which is 14% 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 11.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 255.8 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. Mitchell Cotts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 198.2 kB

  • Original 301.7 kB
  • After minification 265.5 kB
  • After compression 103.5 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 198.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 80.8 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Mitchellcotts.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 68.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (34%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mitchell Cotts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Mitchellcotts.co.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 Mitchellcotts.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 Mitchell Cotts. 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: