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thedigitalmall.co.za

The Digital Mall

Page Load Speed

15.6 sec in total

First Response

5.9 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedigitalmall.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.9 sec and then it took 9.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedigitalmall.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thedigitalmall.co.za

5939 ms

shortcodes.css

727 ms

style.css

947 ms

media-queries.css

488 ms

lightbox.css

721 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Thedigitalmall.co.za, 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Thedigitalmall.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 232.9 kB (48%)

Content Size

487.4 kB

After Optimization

254.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Thedigitalmall.co.za main page is 487.4 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. Javascripts take 211.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.3 kB, which is 18% 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 10.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 157 B

  • Original 167.0 kB
  • After minification 166.8 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. The Digital Mall images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 140.9 kB

  • Original 211.7 kB
  • After minification 204.5 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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 140.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 81.7 kB

  • Original 96.2 kB
  • After minification 71.4 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Thedigitalmall.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (76%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Digital Mall. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Thedigitalmall.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 Thedigitalmall.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 data is detected on the main page of The Digital Mall. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: