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burkinafaso.usembassy.gov

U.S. Embassy in Burkina Faso

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

4.5 sec

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About Website

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The mission of the United States Embassy is to advance the interests of the United States, and to serve and protect U.S. citizens in Burkina Faso.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

burkinafaso.usembassy.gov performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

burkinafaso.usembassy.gov

222 ms

ouagadougou.usembassy.gov

128 ms

analytics.js

19 ms

federated-analytics.js

222 ms

jquery.js

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov, 33% (26 requests) were made to Ouagadougou.usembassy.gov and 29% (23 requests) were made to Photos.state.gov. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.syndication.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 755.0 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

749.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 565.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 7.1 kB, which is 13% 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 43.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 565.1 kB
  • After minification 502.3 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, Burkina Faso U S Embassy needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.9 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

-68%

Potential reduce by 378.8 kB

  • Original 561.1 kB
  • After minification 532.4 kB
  • After compression 182.3 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 378.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 270.2 kB

  • Original 323.8 kB
  • After minification 310.3 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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. Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 270.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (53%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Burkina Faso U S Embassy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

burkinafaso.usembassy.gov 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 Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov 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 Burkinafaso.usembassy.gov 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 description is not detected on the main page of Burkina Faso U S Embassy. 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: