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hozelock.co.za

Hozelock - Created by Gardeners for Gardeners | Hozelock Ltd

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

About Website

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Hozelock combine a knowledge and passion for gardening with a pride in craftsmanship to develop watering and pond solutions to help gardens flourish.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hozelock.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hozelock.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hozelock.co.za

179 ms

www.hozelock.co.za

452 ms

stylesheet.php

174 ms

stylesheet.php

1168 ms

stylesheet.php

1266 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Hozelock.co.za, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Visibility-stats.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hozelock.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

180.0 kB

After Optimization

110.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hozelock.co.za main page is 180.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 98.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 3.3 kB, which is 14% 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 16.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 995 B

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 51.2 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. Hozelock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 46.6 kB

  • Original 98.3 kB
  • After minification 91.5 kB
  • After compression 51.7 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 46.6 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Hozelock.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (65%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hozelock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

hozelock.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 Hozelock.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 Hozelock.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 description is not detected on the main page of Hozelock. 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: