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christianrepublic.co.za

christianrepublic.co.za

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

809 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Christianrepublic.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 809 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

christianrepublic.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

christianrepublic.co.za

809 ms

style-wide.css

243 ms

calendarDateInput.js

485 ms

ga.js

29 ms

icon-fb.gif

247 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Christianrepublic.co.za, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Christianrepublic.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

307.2 kB

After Optimization

246.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Christianrepublic.co.za main page is 307.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 216.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 23.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 216.3 kB
  • After minification 214.2 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. Christianrepublic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 26.2 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 9.1 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Christianrepublic.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (30%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Christianrepublic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

christianrepublic.co.za SEO score

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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 Christianrepublic.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 Christianrepublic.co.za 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 Christianrepublic. 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: