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bid4gold.co.za

Bid 4 Gold | South Africa's First Online Precious Metal Auction House

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

674 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bid4gold.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 674 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bid4gold.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bid4gold.co.za

674 ms

welcome.png

1808 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Bid4gold.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Bid4gold.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 215 B (0%)

Content Size

185.6 kB

After Optimization

185.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Bid4gold.co.za main page is 185.6 kB. This result falls within a big category (top 100 000) of medium weight web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 184.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 215 B

  • Original 652 B
  • After minification 651 B
  • After compression 437 B

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 215 B or 33% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 184.9 kB
  • After minification 184.9 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. Bid 4 Gold images are well optimized though.

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 Bid 4 Gold. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

bid4gold.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bid4gold.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bid4gold.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bid 4 Gold. 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: