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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com

APO Group - Africa Newsroom / Press Releases Related to Africa

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

264 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ecobank Africa Newsroom content for Nigeria. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ecobank.africa-newsroom.com

Africa Newsroom offers the latest Africa-related news releases & official statements issued by companies, governments, international organizations, NGOs & the UN.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecobank.africa-newsroom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.4 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

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.497

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1083 ms

50

330 ms

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21 ms

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1831 ms

b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Ecobank.africa-newsroom.com, 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecobank.africa-newsroom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

985.3 kB

After Optimization

684.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ecobank.africa-newsroom.com main page is 985.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 696.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 163.1 kB

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 167.9 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 19.9 kB, which is 11% 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 163.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 101.1 kB
  • After minification 89.8 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. Obviously, Ecobank Africa Newsroom needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 126.5 kB

  • Original 696.4 kB
  • After minification 696.3 kB
  • After compression 569.9 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 126.5 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecobank Africa Newsroom. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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330 ms

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21 ms

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1831 ms

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b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

38 ms

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34 ms

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in.js

27 ms

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48 ms

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53 ms

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36 ms

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21 ms

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4 ms

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46 ms

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35 ms

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19 ms

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42 ms

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191 ms

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192 ms

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192 ms

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Accessibility Review

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com SEO score

82

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Ecobank.africa-newsroom.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 Ecobank.africa-newsroom.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

ecobank.africa-newsroom.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ecobank Africa Newsroom. 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: