Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

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About Website

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ITechweb is a web design and web development company. We also offer web hosting and email hosting and IT support.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itechweb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itechweb.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

itechweb.co.za

2088 ms

jquery.typeahead.css

479 ms

settings.css

474 ms

dynamic-captions.css

470 ms

static-captions.css

471 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Itechweb.co.za, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Itechweb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 912.2 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

701.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Itechweb.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 514.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 113.8 kB

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 51.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 72.2 kB, which is 59% 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 113.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 509.0 kB
  • After minification 485.5 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. Itechweb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 363.2 kB

  • Original 514.1 kB
  • After minification 511.2 kB
  • After compression 150.9 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 363.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 411.6 kB

  • Original 467.1 kB
  • After minification 323.8 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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. Itechweb.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 411.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (65%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Itechweb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

itechweb.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Itechweb.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Itechweb.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 Itechweb. 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: