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springlab.co

Springlab | Technology Incubator & Partner in South Africa

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

228 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Springlab.co page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

springlab.co performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

springlab.co

1121 ms

style.css

307 ms

colorbox.css

598 ms

jcarousel.css

604 ms

jquery.min.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Springlab.co, 6% (2 requests) were made to Springlab.co.za and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Springlab.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

531.1 kB

After Optimization

486.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Springlab.co main page is 531.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 400.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 18.8 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 13.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 400.9 kB
  • After minification 387.6 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. Springlab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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 11.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 18.8 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Springlab.co needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (61%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Springlab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Springlab.co 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 Springlab.co 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 Springlab. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: