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sawriterscollege.co.za

Writing Courses Online Since 2005 | SA Writers College

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sawriterscollege.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 3.5 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

sawriterscollege.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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132 ms

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913 ms

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120 ms

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79 ms

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19 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Sawriterscollege.co.za, 6% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) belongs to the original domain Sawriterscollege.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 494.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sawriterscollege.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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 170.6 kB
  • After minification 167.0 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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 130.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. SA Writers College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 250.9 kB

  • Original 426.3 kB
  • After minification 418.3 kB
  • After compression 175.4 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 250.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Sawriterscollege.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (26%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

89

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Writers College. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

sawriterscollege.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

sawriterscollege.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SA Writers College. 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: