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wp-emoji-release.min.js

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frontend.min.css

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css

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menu-animation.min.css

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Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Thesittingducks.co.za, 17% (10 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thesittingducks.co.za.

Content Size

946.3 kB

After Optimization

781.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Thesittingducks.co.za main page is 946.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 658.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

Original 153.1 kB
After minification 149.0 kB
After compression 25.9 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 127.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

Original 658.3 kB
After minification 621.6 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 Sitting Ducks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 305 B

Original 78.3 kB
After minification 78.3 kB
After compression 78.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 422 B

Original 56.7 kB
After minification 56.7 kB
After compression 56.3 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. Thesittingducks.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Sitting Ducks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.