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netcarehospitals.co.za

Netcare Hospitals - Providing Private Healthcare in South Africa

Page Load Speed

19.8 sec in total

First Response

5.9 sec

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Netcarehospitals.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.9 sec and then it took 13.8 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

netcarehospitals.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

netcarehospitals.co.za

5922 ms

bootstrap.css

3173 ms

default.css

2444 ms

module.css

502 ms

SearchSkinObjectPreview.css

503 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Netcarehospitals.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Netcare.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Netcarehospitals.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (64%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

856.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Netcarehospitals.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 10.6 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 36.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 535.7 kB
  • After minification 535.5 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. Netcare Hospitals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 961.9 kB
  • After compression 259.4 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 1.1 MB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 393.8 kB

  • Original 446.1 kB
  • After minification 301.5 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Netcarehospitals.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 393.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (58%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Netcare Hospitals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Netcarehospitals.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 Netcarehospitals.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 Netcare Hospitals. 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: