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carteblanche.co.za

Carte Blanche

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

419 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carteblanche.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 8 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

carteblanche.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

carteblanche.co.za

2805 ms

style.css

1616 ms

superfish.css

1618 ms

css

26 ms

jquery.min.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Carteblanche.co.za, 56% (38 requests) were made to Carteblanche.dstv.com and 22% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.dstv.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Carteblanche.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Carteblanche.co.za main page is 2.3 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 52.2 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.1 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 52.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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. Carte Blanche images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 259.9 kB

  • Original 384.4 kB
  • After minification 366.3 kB
  • After compression 124.5 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 259.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 73.5 kB

  • Original 83.4 kB
  • After minification 55.4 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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. Carteblanche.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (41%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carte Blanche. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

carteblanche.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 Carteblanche.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 Carteblanche.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 Carte Blanche. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: