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cottonon.co.za

Women's, Men's & Kids Clothing & Accessories | Cotton On South Africa

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

734 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

409 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottonon.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 734 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cottonon.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cottonon.co.za

734 ms

bootstrap.min.css

344 ms

mediaelementplayer.css

230 ms

style.css

164 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

365 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Cottonon.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (734 ms) belongs to the original domain Cottonon.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 638.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

735.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottonon.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 522.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 25% 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 9.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 522.2 kB
  • After minification 505.7 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. Cotton On images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 292.6 kB

  • Original 455.0 kB
  • After minification 450.4 kB
  • After compression 162.4 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 292.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 319.8 kB

  • Original 385.2 kB
  • After minification 376.5 kB
  • After compression 65.4 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. Cottonon.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 319.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (46%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cotton On. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cottonon.co.za

cottonon.co.za

734 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

344 ms

mediaelementplayer.css

mediaelementplayer.css

230 ms

style.css

style.css

164 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

365 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

171 ms

underscore.js

underscore.js

256 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

324 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.js

bootstrap-datepicker.js

254 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

452 ms

main.js

main.js

339 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

190 ms

bootstrap-overrides.css

bootstrap-overrides.css

243 ms

global.css

global.css

347 ms

form.css

form.css

264 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

281 ms

logo.png

logo.png

87 ms

about-us.jpg

about-us.jpg

303 ms

join-us.jpg

join-us.jpg

175 ms

find-us.jpg

find-us.jpg

245 ms

shop-mens.jpg

shop-mens.jpg

163 ms

womens.jpg

womens.jpg

319 ms

follow-us.jpg

follow-us.jpg

174 ms

contact-us.jpg

contact-us.jpg

316 ms

email-icon.png

email-icon.png

319 ms

email-btn.png

email-btn.png

317 ms

CottonOn.png

CottonOn.png

320 ms

CO_Kids.png

CO_Kids.png

332 ms

CO_Free.png

CO_Free.png

332 ms

CO_Body.png

CO_Body.png

387 ms

CO_Rubi.png

CO_Rubi.png

386 ms

CO_Type.png

CO_Type.png

386 ms

CO_Foundation.png

CO_Foundation.png

394 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

21 ms

Knockout28.otf

Knockout28.otf

390 ms

qwkQRJXh-Pw

qwkQRJXh-Pw

125 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

www-embed-player-vflQrT_sR.css

www-embed-player-vflQrT_sR.css

66 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

87 ms

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yrK4EqpSRdoujKQmsJoZ5WaLgeULvcWnibQMQSxOOnM.js

40 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

112 ms

2UX7WLTfW3W8TclTUvlFyQ.woff

2UX7WLTfW3W8TclTUvlFyQ.woff

108 ms

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118 ms

SEO Factors

cottonon.co.za SEO score

0

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 Cottonon.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 Cottonon.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

cottonon.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cotton On. 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: