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southern-light.com

Southern Light Country House Official Site | Guest houses in Cape Town

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

472 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Southern Light content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southern-light.com

Situated in Cape Town, Southern Light Country House features accommodation a 6-minute walk from Cecilia Forest Hiking Trail Start/End and 900 metres from Cecilia Forest Station (no road). Complimentar...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southern-light.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southern-light.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.southern-light.com

2274 ms

language-selector.css

108 ms

style.css

200 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

199 ms

prettyPhoto.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Southern-light.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Travelground.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southern-light.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

979.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southern-light.com main page is 1.3 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. Images take 872.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 24.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 872.2 kB
  • After minification 836.2 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. Southern Light images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 239.0 kB

  • Original 363.5 kB
  • After minification 327.0 kB
  • After compression 124.5 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 239.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. Southern-light.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (38%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Light. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.southern-light.com

www.southern-light.com

2274 ms

language-selector.css

language-selector.css

108 ms

style.css

style.css

200 ms

ddsmoothmenu.css

ddsmoothmenu.css

199 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

214 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

226 ms

redirect.min.js

redirect.min.js

206 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

314 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

218 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

ddsmoothmenu.js

294 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

292 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

306 ms

custom.js

custom.js

310 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

327 ms

Museo_Slab_500_400.font.js

Museo_Slab_500_400.font.js

401 ms

style.css

style.css

417 ms

cat-posts.css

cat-posts.css

419 ms

styles.css

styles.css

435 ms

tablepress-combined.min.css

tablepress-combined.min.css

417 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

540 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

512 ms

sitepress.js

sitepress.js

506 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

527 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

512 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

83 ms

.json

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100 ms

bk_body.jpg

bk_body.jpg

347 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

217 ms

ga.js

ga.js

10 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

33 ms

lime.png

lime.png

1227 ms

membership-badge-2013-C.png

membership-badge-2013-C.png

475 ms

bk_main_wrapper_home.png

bk_main_wrapper_home.png

187 ms

bk_header.png

bk_header.png

98 ms

slch-logo.png

slch-logo.png

105 ms

bk_mainmenu.png

bk_mainmenu.png

104 ms

bk_submenu.png

bk_submenu.png

2032 ms

ico_facebook.png

ico_facebook.png

160 ms

ico_rss.png

ico_rss.png

203 ms

german.png

german.png

205 ms

english.png

english.png

204 ms

slider1.jpg

slider1.jpg

563 ms

birds-eye-view.jpg

birds-eye-view.jpg

653 ms

slider2.jpg

slider2.jpg

486 ms

slider3.jpg

slider3.jpg

582 ms

slider5.jpg

slider5.jpg

606 ms

slider6.jpg

slider6.jpg

682 ms

slider4.jpg

slider4.jpg

758 ms

slider7.jpg

slider7.jpg

866 ms

slider8.jpg

slider8.jpg

947 ms

but_blurb.png

but_blurb.png

743 ms

index02b.gif

index02b.gif

878 ms

ghasa-logo.png

ghasa-logo.png

838 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

850 ms

bk_shadow_slider.png

bk_shadow_slider.png

929 ms

bk_blurb.jpg

bk_blurb.jpg

943 ms

bk_horiz_line.jpg

bk_horiz_line.jpg

943 ms

but_show_hide.png

but_show_hide.png

950 ms

bk_footer_widgets.png

bk_footer_widgets.png

1004 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

980 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

979 ms

membership-badge-2013-C.png

membership-badge-2013-C.png

922 ms

but_prev.png

but_prev.png

95 ms

but_next.png

but_next.png

96 ms

slider_controlnav.png

slider_controlnav.png

95 ms

SEO Factors

southern-light.com SEO score

0

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 Southern-light.com 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 Southern-light.com 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Southern Light. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: