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moneysmart.co.za

Online Personal Finance Community

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

440 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Moneysmart.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 440 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

moneysmart.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

moneysmart.co.za

440 ms

moneysmart.co.za

468 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

101 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

198 ms

styles.css

288 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Moneysmart.co.za, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Moneysmart.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 723.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Moneysmart.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 113.0 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. 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 88.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Moneysmart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 303.2 kB

  • Original 444.4 kB
  • After minification 405.9 kB
  • After compression 141.1 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 303.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 298.4 kB

  • Original 347.7 kB
  • After minification 286.1 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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. Moneysmart.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 298.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (69%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Moneysmart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

moneysmart.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 Moneysmart.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 Moneysmart.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8;. 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 data is detected on the main page of Moneysmart. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: