Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafrican.us page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

southafrican.us

1153 ms

css

26 ms

style.css

164 ms

navigation.js

190 ms

weightloss.jpeg

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Southafrican.us, 22% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Joburgservices.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.6 kB (16%)

Content Size

419.8 kB

After Optimization

353.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Southafrican.us main page is 419.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 339.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 34.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 941 B

  • Original 339.1 kB
  • After minification 338.1 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. Southafrican images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 588 B

  • Original 863 B
  • After minification 598 B
  • After compression 275 B

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 588 B or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Southafrican.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southafrican. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southafrican.us 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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Southafrican.us 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 Southafrican. 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: