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thesittingducks.co.za

Pet Sitting - Home ‣ The Sitting Ducks Pet Sitting Services

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

10.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesittingducks.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 11.5 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

thesittingducks.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.thesittingducks.co.za

2555 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

476 ms

frontend.min.css

773 ms

css

102 ms

menu-animation.min.css

568 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Thesittingducks.co.za, 17% (10 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesittingducks.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

781.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thesittingducks.co.za main page is 1.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 658.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 153.1 kB
  • After minification 149.0 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 127.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 658.3 kB
  • After minification 621.6 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. The Sitting Ducks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 127 B

  • Original 78.1 kB
  • After minification 78.1 kB
  • After compression 78.0 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

-55%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 126.1 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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. Thesittingducks.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69.9 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (86%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sitting Ducks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thesittingducks.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 Thesittingducks.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 Thesittingducks.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 The Sitting Ducks. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: