Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

707 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

628 ms

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About Website

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SA Airports by ACSA has dedicated itself to ensuring that the airport shopping experience is characterised by quality products at discounted duty free prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saairports.com page load time and found that the first response time was 707 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saairports.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

saairports.com

707 ms

www.saairports.com

1400 ms

fbds.js

51 ms

bootstrap.min.css

442 ms

containerstyles.css

652 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Saairports.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Mallguide.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Saairports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 693.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Saairports.com main page is 3.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 51.2 kB

  • Original 60.9 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 18% 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 51.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 137.7 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Saairports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 321.2 kB

  • Original 470.8 kB
  • After minification 451.3 kB
  • After compression 149.7 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 321.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 183.3 kB

  • Original 221.2 kB
  • After minification 190.4 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Saairports.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 183.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (43%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saairports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

saairports.com 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 Saairports.com 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 Saairports.com 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 Saairports. 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: