Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pixmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 5.8 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

pixmag.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

pixmag.co.za

290 ms

www.pix-online.com

523 ms

ga.js

25 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

193 ms

responsive_ads.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pixmag.co.za, 87% (118 requests) were made to Pix-online.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Pix-online.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (22%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Pixmag.co.za main page is 7.8 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. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 254.5 kB

  • Original 300.7 kB
  • After minification 295.1 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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. 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 254.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Pixmag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 787.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 343.6 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 787.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 599.6 kB

  • Original 683.4 kB
  • After minification 575.3 kB
  • After compression 83.8 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. Pixmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 599.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (43%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pixmag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

pixmag.co.za SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pixmag.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Pixmag.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 Pixmag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: