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rackspace.co.za

Rackspace: Managed Dedicated & Cloud Computing Services

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rackspace.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 436 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rackspace.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.rackspace.co.za

436 ms

www.rackspace.co.uk

269 ms

css_6ytip1o_LzHEqFKq1SIf26jytZwxzPRRQHLMxbffPew.css

160 ms

css_0Xx6cci_PPeHTCHMuj_X4eBdurEcfVWF5ILuzBPPHYI.css

199 ms

css_WDR24w5H3Luvl4QRDr7a4DeoOjzRSspkZu76AO6bA-A.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 124 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rackspace.co.za, 23% (28 requests) were made to Rackspace.co.uk and 10% (13 requests) were made to Rackspace.15gifts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (676 ms) relates to the external source Rackspace.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

984.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Rackspace.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 57.7 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 57.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 574.7 kB
  • After minification 550.4 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. Rackspace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 777.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 327.5 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 777.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 566.0 kB

  • Original 656.2 kB
  • After minification 649.5 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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. Rackspace.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 566.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (71%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rackspace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

rackspace.co.za SEO score

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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 Rackspace.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 Rackspace.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 Rackspace. 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: