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qatcom.com

The BIGGEST business website in Qatar, Qatcom is The Online Yellow Pages Directory, with over 36'000 adverts for companies in Doha

Page Load Speed

17.2 sec in total

First Response

443 ms

Resources Loaded

12.9 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

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About Website

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Qatcom is the largest online Yellow Pages Directory, with over 24'000 listings, representing 96% of companies in Doha & Qatar

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qatcom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 443 ms and then it took 16.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

qatcom.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

qatcom.com

443 ms

www.qatcom.com

955 ms

jquery.js

536 ms

fixes.js

1196 ms

advertbox.js

1306 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Qatcom.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Xslt.alexa.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Xsltcache.alexa.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Qatcom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 886.1 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

726.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Qatcom.com main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 849.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 54.3 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 15.2 kB, which is 28% 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 46.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 631.9 kB
  • After minification 520.3 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, Qatcom needs image optimization as it can save up to 111.6 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 664.8 kB

  • Original 849.3 kB
  • After minification 566.1 kB
  • After compression 184.5 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 664.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 77.0 kB
  • After minification 54.9 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Qatcom.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (47%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Qatcom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

qatcom.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • 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 Qatcom.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Qatcom.com 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 Qatcom. 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: