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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

acts-net.org

Home - African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

537 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

841 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acts-net.org page load time and found that the first response time was 537 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acts-net.org performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acts-net.org

537 ms

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Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Acts-net.org, 13% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (847 ms) belongs to the original domain Acts-net.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 597.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acts-net.org main page is 6.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 76.0 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. 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 61.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 477.5 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.6 MB

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. ACTS Net images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 279.2 kB
  • After minification 279.2 kB
  • After compression 250.6 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 172.7 kB
  • After minification 172.7 kB
  • After compression 142.4 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. Acts-net.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (56%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACTS Net. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

acts-net.org accessibility score

92

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

acts-net.org best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

acts-net.org SEO score

80

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 Acts-net.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 Acts-net.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

acts-net.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ACTS Net. 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: