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tickertalk.co.za

tickertalk.co.za

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

3.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tickertalk.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.2 sec and then it took 4.8 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

tickertalk.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

home.php

3182 ms

styles_global.css

195 ms

styles.css

325 ms

mootools12-min.js

450 ms

core-min.js

387 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Tickertalk.co.za, 9% (5 requests) were made to Feeds.feedburner.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Tickertalk.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.7 kB (64%)

Content Size

721.1 kB

After Optimization

261.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tickertalk.co.za main page is 721.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 300.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 157.3 kB

  • Original 230.1 kB
  • After minification 224.8 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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 157.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 96.9 kB
  • After minification 91.5 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. Tickertalk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 220.5 kB

  • Original 300.9 kB
  • After minification 261.0 kB
  • After compression 80.4 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 220.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Tickertalk.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (71%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tickertalk. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home.php

home.php

3182 ms

styles_global.css

styles_global.css

195 ms

styles.css

styles.css

325 ms

mootools12-min.js

mootools12-min.js

450 ms

core-min.js

core-min.js

387 ms

styles_apps.css

styles_apps.css

249 ms

semods.js

semods.js

222 ms

semods_apps.js

semods_apps.js

505 ms

smoothboxEx.js

smoothboxEx.js

292 ms

moofacebox.js

moofacebox.js

383 ms

moofacebox.css

moofacebox.css

374 ms

forum_styles.css

forum_styles.css

354 ms

fckeditor.js

fckeditor.js

404 ms

styles_classified.css

styles_classified.css

398 ms

fckeditor.js

fckeditor.js

410 ms

styles_event.css

styles_event.css

407 ms

styles_rssfeed.css

styles_rssfeed.css

424 ms

styles_article.css

styles_article.css

459 ms

showhide.js

showhide.js

464 ms

styles_campaigns.css

styles_campaigns.css

468 ms

styles_poll.css

styles_poll.css

470 ms

styles_album.css

styles_album.css

495 ms

output

output

132 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

4 ms

header-main.jpg

header-main.jpg

543 ms

banner200wide.jpg

banner200wide.jpg

65 ms

follow_us-a.png

follow_us-a.png

186 ms

feedback_tab.png

feedback_tab.png

83 ms

0_6671.jpg

0_6671.jpg

78 ms

0_5626.jpg

0_5626.jpg

165 ms

nophoto.gif

nophoto.gif

82 ms

0_8285.jpg

0_8285.jpg

77 ms

icon_topic.gif

icon_topic.gif

87 ms

jump_to_post.gif

jump_to_post.gif

165 ms

spam_banner.gif

spam_banner.gif

165 ms

rssfeed16.gif

rssfeed16.gif

166 ms

poll_poll16.gif

poll_poll16.gif

402 ms

header.gif

header.gif

158 ms

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OGpRJv1yjHU

33 ms

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44 ms

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63 ms

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62 ms

N9TtKhiopzs

N9TtKhiopzs

63 ms

ca-pub-8465775630727340.js

ca-pub-8465775630727340.js

143 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

47 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

61 ms

ads

ads

280 ms

osd.js

osd.js

10 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

18 ms

abg.js

abg.js

35 ms

favicon

favicon

75 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

43 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

34 ms

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18 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

9 ms

SEO Factors

tickertalk.co.za SEO score

0

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 Tickertalk.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 Tickertalk.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

tickertalk.co.za

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