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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

acen.africa

Opportunities for an inclusive Circular Economy in Africa

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

209 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acen.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 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

acen.africa performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acen.africa

280 ms

acen.africa

483 ms

www.acen.africa

653 ms

script.js

484 ms

css2

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Acen.africa, 29% (7 requests) were made to Static-cdn.website-editor.net and 21% (5 requests) were made to Le-cdn.website-editor.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.website-editor.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

609.1 kB

After Optimization

517.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acen.africa main page is 609.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 294.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 82.6 kB

  • Original 107.2 kB
  • After minification 101.5 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 82.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 294.0 kB
  • After minification 285.1 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. Acen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 131.1 kB
  • After minification 131.1 kB
  • After compression 131.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 316 B

  • Original 76.7 kB
  • After minification 76.7 kB
  • After compression 76.4 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. Acen.africa has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (31%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

acen.africa

acen.africa

280 ms

acen.africa

acen.africa

483 ms

www.acen.africa

www.acen.africa

653 ms

script.js

script.js

484 ms

css2

css2

47 ms

d-css-runtime-desktop-one-package-structured-global.min.css

d-css-runtime-desktop-one-package-structured-global.min.css

38 ms

5521365af2da04e78f304a3743feec5a.css

5521365af2da04e78f304a3743feec5a.css

48 ms

1d19b3c8e4ec4cea997a5b973b37c28c_header_withFlex_1.min.css

1d19b3c8e4ec4cea997a5b973b37c28c_header_withFlex_1.min.css

1445 ms

1and1-runtime.css

1and1-runtime.css

223 ms

1d19b3c8e4ec4cea997a5b973b37c28c_home_withFlex_1.min.css

1d19b3c8e4ec4cea997a5b973b37c28c_home_withFlex_1.min.css

521 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

3 ms

d-js-one-runtime-unified-desktop.min.js

d-js-one-runtime-unified-desktop.min.js

8 ms

7c4f2214a1310a4619fb05685.js

7c4f2214a1310a4619fb05685.js

156 ms

gb.png

gb.png

280 ms

ACEN+Logo+-+Moss-Dark+Green-1920w.png

ACEN+Logo+-+Moss-Dark+Green-1920w.png

839 ms

6366770-1920w.jpg

6366770-1920w.jpg

834 ms

Africa-01-257f9ec0-3b04bfa7-1920w.png

Africa-01-257f9ec0-3b04bfa7-1920w.png

996 ms

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6238849-1920w.jpg

915 ms

ACEN+ACEN-F+Trinomics+4.2.22-1920w.png

ACEN+ACEN-F+Trinomics+4.2.22-1920w.png

839 ms

fr.png

fr.png

261 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

29 ms

dm-font.woff

dm-font.woff

82 ms

dm-social-icons.ttf

dm-social-icons.ttf

134 ms

dm-common-icons.ttf

dm-common-icons.ttf

129 ms

Accessibility Review

acen.africa accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

acen.africa 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

acen.africa SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Acen.africa 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 Acen.africa 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 Acen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: