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saha.org.za

SAHA - South African History Archive - Home

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

474 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saha.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 474 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saha.org.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

saha.org.za

474 ms

lightbox.css

120 ms

saha.css

186 ms

lightbox.js

135 ms

validation.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Saha.org.za, 9% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (474 ms) belongs to the original domain Saha.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 83.5 kB (20%)

Content Size

415.0 kB

After Optimization

331.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saha.org.za main page is 415.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 327.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 15.3 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 11.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 327.8 kB
  • After minification 302.0 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. SAHA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 41.9 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 21.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Saha.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (29%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SAHA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

saha.org.za

saha.org.za

474 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

120 ms

saha.css

saha.css

186 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

135 ms

validation.js

validation.js

130 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

84 ms

ga.js

ga.js

6 ms

bg_tile_red.png

bg_tile_red.png

156 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

209 ms

search.png

search.png

64 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

70 ms

menu-divide-1.gif

menu-divide-1.gif

64 ms

header_below.jpg

header_below.jpg

198 ms

left_bar_2.gif

left_bar_2.gif

149 ms

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home-width-847.jpg

149 ms

home-news-dots.gif

home-news-dots.gif

150 ms

home-latest-news.gif

home-latest-news.gif

210 ms

tbaf-home.png

tbaf-home.png

268 ms

trc-home.png

trc-home.png

217 ms

SAHA_RTTR_WEB_homepage.jpg

SAHA_RTTR_WEB_homepage.jpg

297 ms

JVS-exhibition.png

JVS-exhibition.png

260 ms

Women-newsletter.png

Women-newsletter.png

272 ms

home-foip-block.png

home-foip-block.png

294 ms

right_bar2.gif

right_bar2.gif

294 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

322 ms

blacksquare_logo.gif

blacksquare_logo.gif

330 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

button.65b4bc8f0d6592fdc51d322b3f197660.js

button.65b4bc8f0d6592fdc51d322b3f197660.js

134 ms

follow_button.64a917b4a230f163048902c783e1530f.en.html

follow_button.64a917b4a230f163048902c783e1530f.en.html

47 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

66 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

67 ms

jot

jot

83 ms

SEO Factors

saha.org.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saha.org.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 Saha.org.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

saha.org.za

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