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m.takealot.com

Takealot.com: Online Shopping | SA's leading online store

Page Load Speed

401 ms in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

331 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

About Website

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South Africa's leading online store. Fast, reliable delivery to your door. Many ways to pay. Shop anything you can imagine: TVs, laptops, cellphones, kitchen appliances, toys, books, beauty & more...

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.takealot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 331 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.takealot.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

m.takealot.com

70 ms

m.takealot.com

155 ms

www.takealot.com

60 ms

v1

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original M.takealot.com, 50% (2 requests) were made to Takealot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (155 ms) belongs to the original domain M.takealot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.0 kB (72%)

Content Size

324.7 kB

After Optimization

89.7 kB

In fact, the total size of M.takealot.com main page is 324.7 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 228.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 8.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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 27.0 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 199.2 kB

  • Original 228.0 kB
  • After minification 225.9 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. M.takealot.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Takealot. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

m.takealot.com 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 M.takealot.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 M.takealot.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

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