Report Summary

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maps.yellowpages.co.za

Yellow Maps | Get Directions, Find Businesses, and Explore South Africa

Page Load Speed

54.3 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

47 sec

Page Rendered

4.5 sec

maps.yellowpages.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maps.yellowpages.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 51.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

maps.yellowpages.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

maps.yellowpages.co.za

2876 ms

js

1248 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

1247 ms

jquery.mobile-1.4.2.min.js

3107 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

10121 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Maps.yellowpages.co.za, 16% (9 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Logs.yellowpages.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (69%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

510.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Maps.yellowpages.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 54.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 118.7 kB
  • After minification 112.1 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. Maps Yellow Pages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 804.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 343.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 804.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 259.2 kB

  • Original 299.9 kB
  • After minification 298.4 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Maps.yellowpages.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (66%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maps Yellow Pages. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

maps.yellowpages.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 Maps.yellowpages.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 Maps.yellowpages.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 Maps Yellow Pages. 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: