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big5guesthouse.co.za

Big 5 Guest House | The Big 5 Guest House is a 4 star and AA Highly Recommended establishment

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

767 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

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Big5 Guest House, 4 Star – Highly recommended guest house - There is an African theme throughout the guest house with a restful ambience which provides a welcoming retreat for business traveler.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Big5guesthouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 767 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

big5guesthouse.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

big5guesthouse.co.za

767 ms

mootools-core.js

540 ms

core.js

513 ms

caption.js

514 ms

mootools-more.js

1305 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Big5guesthouse.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Big5guesthouse.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 472.2 kB (51%)

Content Size

918.3 kB

After Optimization

446.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Big5guesthouse.co.za main page is 918.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 493.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 12.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

  • Original 322.1 kB
  • After minification 287.5 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. Obviously, Big 5 Guest House needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 351.7 kB

  • Original 493.9 kB
  • After minification 463.7 kB
  • After compression 142.2 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 351.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 84.2 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Big5guesthouse.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big 5 Guest House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

big5guesthouse.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 Big5guesthouse.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 Big5guesthouse.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 Big 5 Guest House. 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: