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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

act-africa.org

Welcome - ACT-Network

Page Load Speed

998 ms in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

592 ms

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Welcome to act-africa.org homepage info - get ready to check ACT Africa best content for Kenya right away, or after learning these important things about act-africa.org

ACT-Africa aims at bringing together stakeholders and players who are dedicated to improving agricultural productivity through sustainable utilization of natural resources of land and water in Africa'...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Act-africa.org page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 741 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

act-africa.org performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.333

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

act-africa.org

257 ms

bootstrap.4.1.1.css

60 ms

style.css

75 ms

acta_custom.css

80 ms

bootstrap-override.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Act-africa.org, 7% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (257 ms) belongs to the original domain Act-africa.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

992.7 kB

After Optimization

812.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Act-africa.org main page is 992.7 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. Images take 597.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 37.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 597.9 kB
  • After minification 571.0 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. ACT Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 171.2 kB
  • After minification 171.2 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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 39.7 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 100.8 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. Act-africa.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.1 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (48%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACT 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

act-africa.org

act-africa.org

257 ms

bootstrap.4.1.1.css

bootstrap.4.1.1.css

60 ms

style.css

style.css

75 ms

acta_custom.css

acta_custom.css

80 ms

bootstrap-override.css

bootstrap-override.css

41 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

45 ms

libs.css

libs.css

42 ms

base_overrides.css

base_overrides.css

71 ms

content_custom.css

content_custom.css

63 ms

account_custom.css

account_custom.css

70 ms

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

jquery-3.1.1.min.js

89 ms

bootstrap.4.1.1.min.js

bootstrap.4.1.1.min.js

124 ms

bootstrap.popper.min.js

bootstrap.popper.min.js

123 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

124 ms

libs.js

libs.js

122 ms

jrages.js

jrages.js

121 ms

jquery.validate-1.14.min.js

jquery.validate-1.14.min.js

134 ms

jquery.truncator.js

jquery.truncator.js

135 ms

swiper-4.4.6.min.css

swiper-4.4.6.min.css

135 ms

swiper.rage.css

swiper.rage.css

137 ms

swiper-4.1.0.min.js

swiper-4.1.0.min.js

137 ms

jquery.nanoscroller.css

jquery.nanoscroller.css

136 ms

jquery.nanoscroller.min.js

jquery.nanoscroller.min.js

147 ms

jquery.addcaptions-0.2.js

jquery.addcaptions-0.2.js

147 ms

zscript_site.js

zscript_site.js

149 ms

css

css

35 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

20 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

32 ms

logo-act-name.png

logo-act-name.png

36 ms

sam.jpg

sam.jpg

58 ms

ecosystem_mgt_t.jpg

ecosystem_mgt_t.jpg

57 ms

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1716930000_3329569334_3337463276_t.jpg

57 ms

Capacity-building_t.jpg

Capacity-building_t.jpg

58 ms

agriculture-banner_t.jpg

agriculture-banner_t.jpg

58 ms

research-for-development_t.jpg

research-for-development_t.jpg

58 ms

00039_scap_036_t.jpg

00039_scap_036_t.jpg

58 ms

ndume-engineering-displaying-subsoilers_t.jpg

ndume-engineering-displaying-subsoilers_t.jpg

58 ms

europe-day-celebrations.jpg

europe-day-celebrations.jpg

92 ms

partner-EU.jpg

partner-EU.jpg

64 ms

partner-WAC.jpg

partner-WAC.jpg

76 ms

partner-Yei.jpg

partner-Yei.jpg

77 ms

partner-AGRA.png

partner-AGRA.png

77 ms

partner-ecaf.jpg

partner-ecaf.jpg

83 ms

partner-INRA.jpg

partner-INRA.jpg

87 ms

partner-cirad.jpg

partner-cirad.jpg

99 ms

partner-KALRO.jpg

partner-KALRO.jpg

102 ms

partner-norad.jpg

partner-norad.jpg

107 ms

partner-comesa.jpg

partner-comesa.jpg

107 ms

partner-Harmaya.jpg

partner-Harmaya.jpg

110 ms

partner-giz-logo.jpg

partner-giz-logo.jpg

106 ms

partner-FAO_Fsama.jpg

partner-FAO_Fsama.jpg

113 ms

partner-AU-280x120.png

partner-AU-280x120.png

166 ms

partner-cfu.jpg

partner-cfu.jpg

165 ms

partner-cimmyt.jpeg

partner-cimmyt.jpeg

155 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

dark-top.css

dark-top.css

16 ms

Accessibility Review

act-africa.org accessibility score

82

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

act-africa.org 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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

act-africa.org SEO score

77

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Act-africa.org 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 Act-africa.org 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

act-africa.org

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