Report Summary

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rummage.co.za

Garden Route | Accomodation | Real Estate | Business Guide South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

983 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

461 ms

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The South African Garden Route. Accommodation, business and travel guide to one of the most beautiful holiday destinations in Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rummage.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 983 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rummage.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

rummage.co.za

983 ms

www.gardenroute.com

1447 ms

jquery.1.11.1.js

277 ms

bootstrap.css

323 ms

font-awesome.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rummage.co.za, 74% (61 requests) were made to Gardenroute.com and 18% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Forum.gardenroute.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (61%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

676.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Rummage.co.za main page is 1.7 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 85.6 kB

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 26.8 kB, which is 27% 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 85.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 368.1 kB
  • After minification 358.4 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. Rummage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 752.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 903.2 kB
  • After compression 268.9 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 752.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 199.6 kB

  • Original 236.3 kB
  • After minification 191.6 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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. Rummage.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (48%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rummage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

rummage.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rummage.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 Rummage.co.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 Rummage. 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: