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hippobay.com

"HippoBay Online Auctions South Africa - buy and sell new & used electronics, cars, cell phones, collectibles, sporting goods, DVD & more at low price...

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hippobay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 10.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hippobay.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hippobay.com

3374 ms

global.css

2910 ms

JsHttpRequest.js

2918 ms

jsencode.js

2921 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

2986 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Hippobay.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Apis.google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 720.4 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

383.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hippobay.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 789.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 143.5 kB

  • Original 170.2 kB
  • After minification 148.3 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 21.9 kB, which is 13% 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 143.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 116.0 kB
  • After minification 102.6 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. Obviously, Hippo Bay needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 540.2 kB

  • Original 789.6 kB
  • After minification 704.3 kB
  • After compression 249.4 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 540.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Hippobay.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (65%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hippo Bay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hippobay.com

hippobay.com

3374 ms

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2910 ms

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SEO Factors

hippobay.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hippobay.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hippobay.com 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

hippobay.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hippo Bay. 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: