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cityflag.co.za

City Flag - flag manufacturers cape town flag poles banner flags Corporate flags teardrop banners

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

787 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityflag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 787 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityflag.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cityflag.co.za

787 ms

citystyles.css

236 ms

mm_menu.js

705 ms

cf-h.jpg

706 ms

cf-log.png

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Cityflag.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (787 ms) belongs to the original domain Cityflag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

172.5 kB

After Optimization

123.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Cityflag.co.za main page is 172.5 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 113.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 25.0 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 20.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 113.8 kB
  • After minification 112.3 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. City Flag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 25.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 631 B

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. Cityflag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Flag. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

cityflag.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityflag.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 Cityflag.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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