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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

afr.com

Financial Review - Business, Finance and Investment News | afr.com

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

468 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afr.com page load time and found that the first response time was 468 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afr.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,780 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

afr.com

468 ms

www.afr.com

51 ms

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8 ms

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104 ms

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37 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Afr.com, 15% (14 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Cdn-gl.imrworldwide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Afr.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 882.9 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

652.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afr.com main page is 1.5 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 845.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 141.8 kB

  • Original 173.3 kB
  • After minification 134.9 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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 38.4 kB, which is 22% 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 141.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 306.6 kB
  • After minification 285.0 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. Afr images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 549.3 kB

  • Original 845.8 kB
  • After minification 825.2 kB
  • After compression 296.5 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 549.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 170.2 kB

  • Original 210.0 kB
  • After minification 201.6 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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. Afr.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (70%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afr. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

afr.com

afr.com

468 ms

www.afr.com

www.afr.com

51 ms

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8 ms

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104 ms

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37 ms

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34 ms

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31 ms

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141 ms

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140 ms

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138 ms

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1477 ms

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indices

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1527 ms

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339 ms

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358 ms

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91 ms

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111 ms

k_config.js

k_config.js

448 ms

0135.js

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87 ms

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468 ms

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6 ms

Accessibility Review

afr.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

afr.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

afr.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Afr.com 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 Afr.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

afr.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Afr. 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: