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pnet.co.za

Jobs in South Africa | Job search | Pnet.co.za

Page Load Speed

23 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

22.3 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pnet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 22.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

pnet.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

pnet.co.za

272 ms

www.pnet.co.za

902 ms

adrum.js

456 ms

combine.cfm

143 ms

combine.cfm

20231 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pnet.co.za, 21% (10 requests) were made to Pnet-a.akamaihd.net and 19% (9 requests) were made to Qc.pnet.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Pnet-a.akamaihd.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (75%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

599.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Pnet.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 94.7 kB
  • After minification 91.5 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 73.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 109.9 kB
  • After minification 103.9 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. Pnet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 371.2 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 1.3 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 433.7 kB

  • Original 536.7 kB
  • After minification 535.6 kB
  • After compression 103.0 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. Pnet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 433.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (53%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

pnet.co.za SEO score

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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 Pnet.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 Pnet.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 data is detected on the main page of Pnet. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: