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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

aafrica.com

Accelerate Africa | Africa Investments & Corporate Finance Advisory

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

75 ms

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About Website

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Accelerate Africa - Corporate finance and investment advisory, creating proprietary African investment opportunities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aafrica.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aafrica.com

102 ms

minified.js

53 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

51 ms

polyfill.min.js

768 ms

thunderbolt-commons.718dbdea.bundle.min.js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Aafrica.com, 34% (12 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 34% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (768 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 592.8 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

428.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Aafrica.com main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 739.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 587.4 kB

  • Original 739.7 kB
  • After minification 737.9 kB
  • After compression 152.3 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 587.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 37.0 kB
  • After minification 35.3 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. A Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 244.1 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 240.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of A Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.aafrica.com

www.aafrica.com

102 ms

minified.js

minified.js

53 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

51 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

768 ms

thunderbolt-commons.718dbdea.bundle.min.js

thunderbolt-commons.718dbdea.bundle.min.js

84 ms

main.a041a540.bundle.min.js

main.a041a540.bundle.min.js

85 ms

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

83 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

82 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

84 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

84 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

84 ms

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Original%2520on%2520Transparent_edited.png

282 ms

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11062b_3040167ed2424b6f94eee8f028d8dee4~mv2.jpg

370 ms

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edebf6_2ff3a1b0d1f644d4a0b59276020482f1~mv2.jpg

520 ms

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edebf6_a1abd4e5755d41cbaaba03e87a781edb~mv2.jpg

499 ms

Dubai%20City%20View.jpg

Dubai%20City%20View.jpg

523 ms

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edebf6_89a6175685744e83802548c12254d1bf~mv2.png

462 ms

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edebf6_577f174eaec34df1bee36b8f00e2157d~mv2.png

463 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

63 ms

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110 ms

106 ms

141 ms

139 ms

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142 ms

140 ms

140 ms

deprecation-en.v5.html

deprecation-en.v5.html

6 ms

bolt-performance

bolt-performance

37 ms

deprecation-style.v5.css

deprecation-style.v5.css

10 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

8 ms

Accessibility Review

aafrica.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aafrica.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aafrica.com SEO score

93

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

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

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 Aafrica.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 Aafrica.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of A Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: