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oldmutual.co.za

Old Mutual: Investments, Insurance, Loans and Unit Trusts

Page Load Speed

22.1 sec in total

First Response

445 ms

Resources Loaded

21.5 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

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Old Mutual offers a wide range of affordable and comprehensive insurance, investment and corporate solutions as well as financial advice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldmutual.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 445 ms and then it took 21.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

oldmutual.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

oldmutual.co.za

445 ms

www.oldmutual.co.za

398 ms

css

54 ms

polyfill-112a20b880733f8fb104.js

41 ms

app-cece72cb4ddc2bdcc5e0.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 169 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Oldmutual.co.za, 6% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Track.adform.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Dsp.trinamarketing.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (52%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Oldmutual.co.za main page is 4.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 571.3 kB

  • Original 642.0 kB
  • After minification 641.8 kB
  • After compression 70.7 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 571.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. Old Mutual images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 977.7 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 1.7 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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. Oldmutual.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (51%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Old Mutual. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

oldmutual.co.za 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 Oldmutual.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 Oldmutual.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 data is detected on the main page of Old Mutual. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: