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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

aercafrica.org

Home - AERC

Page Load Speed

68.2 sec in total

First Response

5.1 sec

Resources Loaded

63 sec

Page Rendered

197 ms

aercafrica.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing AERC Africa content for Senegal. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about aercafrica.org

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in 1988 is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aercafrica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 5.1 sec and then it took 63.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 30 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

aercafrica.org performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,040 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.631

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aercafrica.org

5077 ms

jsn_epic_pro_css_70d474bb2a7170677522b4421f35d622.php

521 ms

modal.css

514 ms

module_default.css

514 ms

modstyle.css

516 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Aercafrica.org, 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Aercafrica.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aercafrica.org main page is 1.2 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. 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 50.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. AERC Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 34.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. Aercafrica.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AERC 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

aercafrica.org

aercafrica.org

5077 ms

jsn_epic_pro_css_70d474bb2a7170677522b4421f35d622.php

jsn_epic_pro_css_70d474bb2a7170677522b4421f35d622.php

521 ms

modal.css

modal.css

514 ms

module_default.css

module_default.css

514 ms

modstyle.css

modstyle.css

516 ms

style2.css

style2.css

511 ms

style.css

style.css

1078 ms

slideshow.min.css

slideshow.min.css

4044 ms

jsn_epic_pro_javascript_86313390e060a6b0cf1bc6c5d0a4127f.php

jsn_epic_pro_javascript_86313390e060a6b0cf1bc6c5d0a4127f.php

18692 ms

modal.js

modal.js

2337 ms

acymailing_module.js

acymailing_module.js

2341 ms

calnav.js

calnav.js

1308 ms

engine.js

engine.js

1664 ms

engine.js

engine.js

3139 ms

slideshow.min.js

slideshow.min.js

3880 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

61 ms

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bg-master.jpg

277 ms

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276 ms

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position-stick-rightmiddle.png

280 ms

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logo.png

20179 ms

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548 ms

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icons-sitetools-text.png

279 ms

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bg-mainmenu.png

1030 ms

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icons-arrow.png

2515 ms

bg-promo.jpg

bg-promo.jpg

1021 ms

aaa-anniversary.jpg

aaa-anniversary.jpg

20177 ms

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objective1-capacitybuilding.jpg

20178 ms

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objective2-research2.jpg

20177 ms

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objective3-universities2.jpg

20178 ms

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20178 ms

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20179 ms

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20178 ms

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20178 ms

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20179 ms

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20179 ms

Frannie.jpg

Frannie.jpg

20178 ms

FinancialInclusion.jpg

FinancialInclusion.jpg

20179 ms

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20179 ms

ADB_AERC.jpg

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20179 ms

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20179 ms

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20179 ms

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20181 ms

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20180 ms

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20180 ms

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20181 ms

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20180 ms

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20180 ms

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20181 ms

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20180 ms

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20151 ms

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20150 ms

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20150 ms

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6 ms

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3 ms

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121 ms

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19915 ms

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aaa-anniversary.jpg

19931 ms

loader.png

loader.png

1769 ms

Accessibility Review

aercafrica.org accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

aercafrica.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aercafrica.org SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Aercafrica.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 Aercafrica.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

aercafrica.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of AERC Africa. 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: