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big-5.co.za

BIG-5 – BIG5

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Big-5.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

big-5.co.za performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.big-5.co.za

1657 ms

common-982.min.css

18 ms

wide-sidebar.min.css

9 ms

component.min.css

11 ms

1182916785.css

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Big-5.co.za, 52% (35 requests) were made to Api.ning.com and 19% (13 requests) were made to Static.ning.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Api.ning.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.7 kB (52%)

Content Size

449.9 kB

After Optimization

216.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Big-5.co.za main page is 449.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 256.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 94.1 kB
  • After minification 89.1 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 74.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 54.6 kB
  • After minification 53.3 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. BIG 5 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 151.1 kB

  • Original 256.4 kB
  • After minification 250.5 kB
  • After compression 105.2 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 151.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. Big-5.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (46%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BIG 5. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.big-5.co.za

www.big-5.co.za

1657 ms

common-982.min.css

common-982.min.css

18 ms

wide-sidebar.min.css

wide-sidebar.min.css

9 ms

component.min.css

component.min.css

11 ms

1182916785.css

1182916785.css

176 ms

1182966597.css

1182966597.css

187 ms

glamadapt_jsapi.act

glamadapt_jsapi.act

64 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

5 ms

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xn_track.min.js

5 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

88 ms

buttons-ningbar.png

buttons-ningbar.png

79 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

79 ms

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glamadapt_jsapi_track.act

80 ms

noize-sitedesc-bg.png

noize-sitedesc-bg.png

160 ms

jquery.autoResize.js

jquery.autoResize.js

43 ms

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jquery.jsonp.min.js

43 ms

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set_common_min.js

381 ms

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set_sidebar_u_min.js

191 ms

set_mainindeinde_u_min.js

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338 ms

ga.js

ga.js

40 ms

ga.js

ga.js

39 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

40 ms

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SBE.jpg

501 ms

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advertimage.jpg

371 ms

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2647 ms

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advertimage.jpg

584 ms

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SBE.jpg

795 ms

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NewImage2.BMP

781 ms

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578 ms

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Image0024Web.jpg

662 ms

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975 ms

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859 ms

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936 ms

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1868 ms

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Thando.jpg

Thando.jpg

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87 ms

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facebook.gif

87 ms

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service-sprite.png

84 ms

Ning_MM_footer_wht@2x.png

Ning_MM_footer_wht@2x.png

85 ms

cTagsImgCmd.act

cTagsImgCmd.act

89 ms

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collect

71 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

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__utm.gif

14 ms

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collect

54 ms

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jsadimp.gif

62 ms

107 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

65 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

123 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

28 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

39 ms

SEO Factors

big-5.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    LA

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Big-5.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Latin is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Big-5.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

big-5.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BIG 5. 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: