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business-directory-south-africa.com

Business Directory SOUTH-AFRICA with 49845 Companies

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

319 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Business-directory-south-africa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 300 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

business-directory-south-africa.com

300 ms

www.business-directory-south-africa.com

688 ms

style-south-africa.css

290 ms

banner.js

299 ms

banner.css

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Business-directory-south-africa.com, 10% (3 requests) were made to R1.ace.advertising.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to R.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Info.cylex.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.5 kB (68%)

Content Size

226.6 kB

After Optimization

72.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Business-directory-south-africa.com main page is 226.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 198.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 5.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.2 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. Business Directory SOUTH AFRICA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 138.3 kB

  • Original 198.8 kB
  • After minification 191.3 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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 138.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Business-directory-south-africa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Directory SOUTH AFRICA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts 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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Business-directory-south-africa.com 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 Business-directory-south-africa.com 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 Business Directory SOUTH AFRICA. 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: