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smithfield.co.za

Default Web Site Page

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

463 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

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About Website

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Smithfield, deep in South Africa's Free State heartland, is a vibrant community. Here is where you will find eco-adventure great accommodation and eateries. We are a town rich in history; home to fest...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smithfield.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 463 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smithfield.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

smithfield.co.za

463 ms

css

15 ms

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92 ms

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155 ms

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167 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Smithfield.co.za, 10% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Forecast.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (463 ms) belongs to the original domain Smithfield.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

693.2 kB

After Optimization

434.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Smithfield.co.za main page is 693.2 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. Images take 323.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. 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 17.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 323.7 kB
  • After minification 302.1 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. Smithfield images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 153.8 kB

  • Original 261.5 kB
  • After minification 240.8 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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 153.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Smithfield.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (38%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smithfield. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

smithfield.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 Smithfield.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 Smithfield.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 Smithfield. 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: