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designmedia.co.za

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Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Design Media content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about designmedia.co.za

DesignMedia is a web/graphic design company based in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa, providing a variety of website design services to companies, businesses and individuals

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designmedia.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

designmedia.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

designmedia.co.za

1494 ms

components.css

505 ms

icons.css

744 ms

responsee.css

735 ms

owl.carousel.css

510 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Designmedia.co.za, 15% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Designmedia.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

959.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Designmedia.co.za main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 871.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 3.2 kB, which is 23% 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 10.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 871.6 kB
  • After minification 852.9 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. Design Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 236.3 kB

  • Original 323.9 kB
  • After minification 314.0 kB
  • After compression 87.6 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 236.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 90.8 kB

  • Original 106.6 kB
  • After minification 88.6 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. Designmedia.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 90.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

designmedia.co.za

designmedia.co.za

1494 ms

components.css

components.css

505 ms

icons.css

icons.css

744 ms

responsee.css

responsee.css

735 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

510 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

500 ms

template-style.css

template-style.css

1892 ms

css

css

15 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

1460 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1545 ms

validation.js

validation.js

740 ms

responsee.js

responsee.js

809 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

1060 ms

template-scripts.js

template-scripts.js

968 ms

logo-free.png

logo-free.png

309 ms

01-boxed.jpg

01-boxed.jpg

754 ms

02-boxed.jpg

02-boxed.jpg

1516 ms

img-01.jpg

img-01.jpg

705 ms

img-02.jpg

img-02.jpg

797 ms

img-03.jpg

img-03.jpg

788 ms

bio.png

bio.png

1115 ms

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1219 ms

SEO Factors

designmedia.co.za SEO score

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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 Designmedia.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 Designmedia.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

designmedia.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Design Media. 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: