Report Summary

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

790 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Squarepixel.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 790 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

squarepixel.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

squarepixel.co.za

790 ms

demo.css

330 ms

style.css

525 ms

fonts.css

285 ms

reset.css

475 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Squarepixel.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Squarepixel.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

239.1 kB

After Optimization

228.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Squarepixel.co.za main page is 239.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 226.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 751 B

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 1.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 226.0 kB
  • After minification 225.8 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. Squarepixel images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 9.1 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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. Squarepixel.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Squarepixel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

squarepixel.co.za SEO score

0

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 Squarepixel.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 Squarepixel.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 Squarepixel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: