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brandon.za.org

Environment News South Africa | Green Blog | Eco Bulletin

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

718 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brandon.za.org page load time and found that the first response time was 718 ms and then it took 4 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

brandon.za.org performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

brandon.za.org

718 ms

www.environment.co.za

1120 ms

shareaholic.js

27 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

28 ms

A.bbpress.css,qver=95d1f4e4fd79eb2e8b19b865065873ca-5815.pagespeed.cf.UDybPq-xWG.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brandon.za.org, 33% (39 requests) were made to Environment.co.za and 5% (6 requests) were made to Px.owneriq.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Environment.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (69%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

555.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Brandon.za.org main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 250.4 kB

  • Original 286.3 kB
  • After minification 283.0 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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 250.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 189.4 kB
  • After minification 187.7 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. Brandon Za images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 891.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 285.0 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 891.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 92.7 kB

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 135.4 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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. Brandon.za.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.7 kB or 66% 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 Brandon Za. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

brandon.za.org 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 Brandon.za.org 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 Brandon.za.org 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 Brandon Za. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: