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bridge.org.za

Home - Bridge

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

9.9 sec

Page Rendered

382 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bridge.org.za homepage info - get ready to check Bridge best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about bridge.org.za

Education is key to making South Africa a winning nation. BRIDGE is a non-profit organisation that drives collaboration and co-operation among stakeholders in education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bridge.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 10.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bridge.org.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bridge.org.za

1231 ms

www.bridge.org.za

2614 ms

css

67 ms

css

79 ms

css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Bridge.org.za, 23% (21 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bridge.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 466.3 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

552.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Bridge.org.za main page is 1.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 406.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 47.9 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.5 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 55.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 63.8 kB

  • Original 375.7 kB
  • After minification 311.9 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. Obviously, Bridge needs image optimization as it can save up to 63.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 171.1 kB
  • After compression 141.7 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 29.4 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 317.4 kB

  • Original 406.4 kB
  • After minification 405.9 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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. Bridge.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (62%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bridge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Bridge.org.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 Bridge.org.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 data is detected on the main page of Bridge. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: