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thedesignhouse.co.za

Cape Town Marketing Agency | Advertising Agency | Web Designer | Internet Marketing Service

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedesignhouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedesignhouse.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thedesignhouse.co.za

2316 ms

style.css

267 ms

styles.css

533 ms

dc.js

30 ms

logo_tdh.png

1289 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Thedesignhouse.co.za, 33% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thedesignhouse.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

79.4 kB

After Optimization

65.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedesignhouse.co.za main page is 79.4 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 61.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 565 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 644 B

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 565 B or 47% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 47.5 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, Thedesignhouse needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 17.1 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 38 B
  • After minification 36 B
  • After compression 36 B

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. Thedesignhouse.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thedesignhouse. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thedesignhouse.co.za

thedesignhouse.co.za

2316 ms

style.css

style.css

267 ms

styles.css

styles.css

533 ms

dc.js

dc.js

30 ms

logo_tdh.png

logo_tdh.png

1289 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

SEO Factors

thedesignhouse.co.za SEO score

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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 Thedesignhouse.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 Thedesignhouse.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

thedesignhouse.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thedesignhouse. 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: