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jobs.co.za

Jobs in South Africa | jobs.co.za

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

623 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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About Website

Visit jobs.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Jobs content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about jobs.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 623 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.jobs.co.za

623 ms

bootstrap.min.css

947 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

710 ms

main_home.css

753 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

711 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.co.za, 2% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Jobs.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.5 kB (75%)

Content Size

658.9 kB

After Optimization

165.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Jobs.co.za main page is 658.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 236.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 42.1 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 6.8 kB, which is 14% 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 41.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 145.5 kB

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 57.3 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, Jobs needs image optimization as it can save up to 145.5 kB or 72% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 163.9 kB

  • Original 236.5 kB
  • After minification 210.4 kB
  • After compression 72.7 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 163.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 142.5 kB

  • Original 170.6 kB
  • After minification 161.9 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Jobs.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (25%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Jobs.co.za 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 Jobs.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

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