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buco.co.za

BUCO Hardware and Buildware | Get Back to the Build | Let's Build Together

Page Load Speed

262 ms in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

136 ms

Page Rendered

80 ms

buco.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing BUCO content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about buco.co.za

BUCO portrays the importance of partnerships through our expertise and merchandise, such as tools, hardware, electrical, and plumbing for your daily contractors to your DIY enthusiasts

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buco.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 216 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buco.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

buco.co.za

46 ms

buco.co.za

34 ms

v1

45 ms

vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Buco.co.za, 25% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (52 ms) relates to the external source Static.cloudflareinsights.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 699.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Buco.co.za main page is 2.2 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 8.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. BUCO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 272.3 kB

  • Original 407.6 kB
  • After minification 372.8 kB
  • After compression 135.3 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 272.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 293.7 kB

  • Original 339.1 kB
  • After minification 265.4 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Buco.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BUCO. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

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 Buco.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 Buco.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 BUCO. 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: