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techblog.co.za

Tech Blog

Page Load Speed

15.5 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

432 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techblog.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 12.5 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

techblog.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.techblog.co.za

2941 ms

urchin.js

5 ms

style.css

499 ms

__utm.gif

3 ms

header.png

526 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Techblog.co.za, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Techblog.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 189.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

387.6 kB

After Optimization

197.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Techblog.co.za main page is 387.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 213.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 173.5 kB

  • Original 213.3 kB
  • After minification 204.6 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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 173.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 150.3 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. Tech Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Techblog.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech Blog. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Techblog.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Techblog.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 Tech Blog. 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: