Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

africa-health.com

Africa Health - home of practical and relevant health information

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

995 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

africa-health.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Africa Health content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about africa-health.com

The Africa Health website and journal is available for health professionals in Africa wanting access to continuing medical education information

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa-health.com page load time and found that the first response time was 995 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africa-health.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africa-health.com

995 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

9 ms

style.min.css

26 ms

styles.css

29 ms

settings.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Africa-health.com, 8% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (995 ms) belongs to the original domain Africa-health.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Africa-health.com main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 64.3 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 52.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Africa Health images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 577.4 kB
  • After minification 577.4 kB
  • After compression 567.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 114.0 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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. Africa-health.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (56%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Health. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

africa-health.com accessibility score

82

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

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.

Best Practices

africa-health.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africa-health.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Africa-health.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 Africa-health.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

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