Report Summary

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theregister.co.za

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Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

473 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theregister.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theregister.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.theregister.co.za

2483 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

207 ms

prettyPhoto.css

205 ms

css

24 ms

skeleton.css

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Theregister.co.za, 9% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Theregister.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 732.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

698.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Theregister.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 504.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 91.8 kB

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 112.8 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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 91.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 451.2 kB
  • After minification 428.2 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. Theregister images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 361.6 kB

  • Original 504.0 kB
  • After minification 445.2 kB
  • After compression 142.5 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 361.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 256.0 kB

  • Original 357.4 kB
  • After minification 322.1 kB
  • After compression 101.4 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. Theregister.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (77%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theregister. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

theregister.co.za SEO score

0

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 Theregister.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 Theregister.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 data is detected on the main page of Theregister. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: