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colourworks.co.za

Happy Friday Creative – A people-centric creative agency

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Colourworks.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 9.5 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

colourworks.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

colourworks.co.za

2914 ms

style.css

470 ms

Stylesheet.css

1188 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

1204 ms

count.js

471 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Colourworks.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Colourworks.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Colourworks.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 118.1 kB
  • After minification 86.2 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 31.9 kB, which is 27% 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 96.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 907.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Obviously, Colourworks needs image optimization as it can save up to 907.9 kB or 46% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 389.5 kB

  • Original 596.6 kB
  • After minification 575.2 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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 389.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 81.6 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. Colourworks.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (21%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Colourworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

colourworks.co.za

colourworks.co.za

2914 ms

style.css

style.css

470 ms

Stylesheet.css

Stylesheet.css

1188 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

1204 ms

count.js

count.js

471 ms

jcarousellite.min.js

jcarousellite.min.js

477 ms

jcarousellite.js

jcarousellite.js

721 ms

jquery.jcarousellite.js

jquery.jcarousellite.js

732 ms

ios-orientationchange-fix.js

ios-orientationchange-fix.js

945 ms

konstruct.js

konstruct.js

948 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

css

css

25 ms

cwLogo.svg

cwLogo.svg

481 ms

icon-home.svg

icon-home.svg

478 ms

banner-home.jpg

banner-home.jpg

1453 ms

buttonArrow-white.svg

buttonArrow-white.svg

488 ms

800x400-Old-Mutual-Wisdom-forum.jpg

800x400-Old-Mutual-Wisdom-forum.jpg

1336 ms

800x400-TOTAL.jpg

800x400-TOTAL.jpg

1110 ms

800x400-Quorn-media-launch.jpg

800x400-Quorn-media-launch.jpg

1636 ms

800x400-EventIntelligence-skew.jpg

800x400-EventIntelligence-skew.jpg

1424 ms

800x400-Marketing-skew.jpg

800x400-Marketing-skew.jpg

1427 ms

800x400-Events-skew.jpg

800x400-Events-skew.jpg

2282 ms

Logo_SeaHarvest.jpg

Logo_SeaHarvest.jpg

2056 ms

Logo_Allan_Gray.jpg

Logo_Allan_Gray.jpg

1893 ms

Logo_Metropolitan.jpg

Logo_Metropolitan.jpg

1902 ms

Logo_OldMutual.jpg

Logo_OldMutual.jpg

1925 ms

Logo_PSG.jpg

Logo_PSG.jpg

2333 ms

Logo_MTN.jpg

Logo_MTN.jpg

2604 ms

Logo_BASF.jpg

Logo_BASF.jpg

2599 ms

Logo_Edge.jpg

Logo_Edge.jpg

2631 ms

Logo_Western.jpg

Logo_Western.jpg

2526 ms

Logo_Total.jpg

Logo_Total.jpg

2978 ms

Logo_SABT.jpg

Logo_SABT.jpg

3038 ms

Logo_GrantThornton.jpg

Logo_GrantThornton.jpg

3002 ms

Logo_OMTOM.jpg

Logo_OMTOM.jpg

3298 ms

Logo_StLukes.jpg

Logo_StLukes.jpg

3070 ms

Logo_Alusi.jpg

Logo_Alusi.jpg

3333 ms

buttonArrow-grey.svg

buttonArrow-grey.svg

3447 ms

campus-team.png

campus-team.png

5370 ms

campus-quote.png

campus-quote.png

3507 ms

spraycan2.png

spraycan2.png

4968 ms

wpspin_light.gif

wpspin_light.gif

3774 ms

book-cover.jpg

book-cover.jpg

4053 ms

count.js

count.js

21 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

77 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

38 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

28 ms

SEO Factors

colourworks.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 Colourworks.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 Colourworks.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

colourworks.co.za

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