Local websites that load the fastest

[Bradley Prior]

Local websites that load the fastest

Tests conducted through Webpagetest.org reveal that Wootware, Bidorbuy, and Tyme Bank are the fastest loading websites in South Africa.

 

[charlieharper]

My personal site fully loads in 1.8s according to WebPageTest. (NextJS, with server side rendering).



But yea, can't really compare a little blog with Banks and eComm stores.

 

[randomcat]

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Yep, tooting their own horn. Biased-AF....man, I wonder how my life would've turned out, without this kind of information. My life has been saved, now that I know what sites load faster, I might as well stop using anyting but those sites.

 

[m4tic]

I'm still teaching myself this stuff so forgive me. I want to know on the wootware home page, checking the source I can see the product listings and prices. Does this mean they manually place the products in HTML?

 

[Swa]

192.168.8.1

 

[randomcat]

I'm still teaching myself this stuff so forgive me. I want to know on the wootware home page, checking the source I can see the product listings and prices. Does this mean they manually place the products in HTML?

No. I think they are using Magento, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Crumbl0x]

Hmm that's strange, Takealot is a relatively simple site and never takes longer than 5 seconds to load for me on a subpar Supersonic LTE connection, wonder what constituted that result.

For most of the rest, especially the banking sites, definitely can see it. Nedbank for example since they've moved to the new framework just keeps spinning, and spinning, and spinning for no reason while the old site was near instantaneous.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I was almost expecting the Telkom result to show DNF.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Hmm that's strange, Takealot is a relatively simple site and never takes longer than 5 seconds to load for me on a subpar Supersonic LTE connection, wonder what constituted that result.

For most of the rest, especially the banking sites, definitely can see it. Nedbank for example since they've moved to the new framework just keeps spinning, and spinning, and spinning for no reason while the old site was near instantaneous.

Analytics implementations are what drag most sites down, then you have hooks and other integrations that the user isn’t exposed to, but their session or instance is. At times these resources can be unavailable, limited to connections or slow which will impact the loading times.

Add ads… yes, ads slow websites down, amongst various other external resources which are served to the user.

Lastly, your own plugins.

I haven’t touched on server resources and connectivity, and other optimisation integrations.

 

[Crumbl0x]

Analytics implementations are what drag most sites down, then you have hooks and other integrations that the user isn’t exposed to, but their session or instance is. At times these resources can be unavailable, limited to connections or slow which will impact the loading times.

Add ads… yes, ads slow websites down, amongst various other external resources which are served to the user.

Lastly, your own plugins.

I haven’t touched on server resources and connectivity, and other optimisation integrations.

Thank you! I see now, there's a standard measure of those things and it makes sense.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Thank you! I see now, there's a standard measure of those things and it makes sense.

There are 'optimisation' techniques which can make slow sites load real quick, but these are essentially cheats pending on what is being 'masked'. Once the user 'interacts' these resources will load.

Not going into this.

 

[SeaSickMama]

My personal site fully loads in 1.8s according to WebPageTest. (NextJS, with server side rendering).

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But yea, can't really compare a little blog with Banks and eComm stores.

Cloudflare that and see if changes anything its free after all
Got my server in paris and yeah 2ms local with it after enabling Full Caching also.

 

[RunningFromFat]

What about www.google.co.za ?

 

[charlieharper]

Analytics implementations are what drag most sites down, then you have hooks and other integrations that the user isn’t exposed to, but their session or instance is. At times these resources can be unavailable, limited to connections or slow which will impact the loading times.

Add ads… yes, ads slow websites down, amongst various other external resources which are served to the user.

Lastly, your own plugins.

I haven’t touched on server resources and connectivity, and other optimisation integrations.

Takealot takes a hit in loading time as it's a React App that's being server rendered.
In theory, every time the page loads, it creates a new build for the user. (Of course they optimise, cache etc)

It would've been a touch faster, should it have been fully client side rendered and all the data pulled from their API, but it comes at the cost for the user, being a bit more CPU / Ram intensive and for Takealot, they lose out on SEO, as crawlers don't think much of client rendered apps.

For comparison, Amazon takes 20 seconds to load according to WebPageTest

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Average of three for my online store was 3.719 seconds. Where’s my Noddy badge, MyBB?

 

[CorneliusCenturion]

My personal site fully loads in 1.8s according to WebPageTest. (NextJS, with server side rendering).

WTF is server-side rendering? Web pages are rendered in the browser

Average of three for my online store was 3.719 seconds. Where’s my Noddy badge, MyBB?

Yeah all my portfolio sites got around 85 for the Google Webmasters Speed Test and I really did nothing but make the website to get that score. All around the 3.5-second load speed.

Takealot takes a hit in loading time as it's a React App that's being server rendered.
In theory, every time the page loads, it creates a new build for the user. (Of course they optimise, cache etc)

It would've been a touch faster, should it have been fully client side rendered and all the data pulled from their API, but it comes at the cost for the user, being a bit more CPU / Ram intensive and for Takealot, they lose out on SEO, as crawlers don't think much of client rendered apps.

For comparison, Amazon takes 20 seconds to load according to WebPageTest

React, Angular and Vue are all JS frameworks. What they do is subscribe to the SPAM model (Single Page Application Model) This means that through the use of the MCV architecture various parts of the webpage are broken down in components. The great thing that this leads to is that there is only one big call to the server when the page is loaded and then all the user interaction happens through JS in the browser, greatly improving the UI experience.

Server rendering is not entirely accurate, the website is like it has always been rendered in the browser. It is just the way in which the data has been served has been refined with these frameworks. A server does not render dat it only servves it.

 

[CorneliusCenturion]

There are 'optimisation' techniques which can make slow sites load real quick, but these are essentially cheats pending on what is being 'masked'. Once the user 'interacts' these resources will load.

Not going into this.

trying to con the google bot is the easiest way of ensuring your website never gets ranked. That is a dangerous game to start playing.