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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

africa-legal.com

Legal News | Jobs | Training Courses in Africa | Africa Legal

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

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About Website

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

Africa Legal provides a simple way to read legal news, apply for a range of jobs & take courses in the legal sector. Keep up to date with the African legal market & find your next role with us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa-legal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africa-legal.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.681

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africa-legal.com

254 ms

www.africa-legal.com

605 ms

custom.css

98 ms

bootstrap.css

91 ms

home.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Africa-legal.com, 28% (23 requests) were made to F2c2926c029454946516-7d644e969adb7455e8fa949b1532b628.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com and 13% (11 requests) were made to 1a2e0d110f3584b933d6-bfc6fa9e37b4f1e56d6ae82bbd83a2d2.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Learn.africa-legal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (25%)

Content Size

10.3 MB

After Optimization

7.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africa-legal.com main page is 10.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 9.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.2 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 48.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 9.6 MB
  • After minification 7.3 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. Obviously, Africa Legal needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.3 MB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 82.0 kB

  • Original 431.5 kB
  • After minification 429.7 kB
  • After compression 349.6 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 82.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 186.6 kB

  • Original 278.0 kB
  • After minification 271.2 kB
  • After compression 91.4 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. Africa-legal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (56%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Legal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africa-legal.com

africa-legal.com

254 ms

www.africa-legal.com

www.africa-legal.com

605 ms

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98 ms

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bootstrap.css

91 ms

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105 ms

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332 ms

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82 ms

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128 ms

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126 ms

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124 ms

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123 ms

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180 ms

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179 ms

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171 ms

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212 ms

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112 ms

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329 ms

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187 ms

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81 ms

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82 ms

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104 ms

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37 ms

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Accessibility Review

africa-legal.com accessibility score

65

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

africa-legal.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africa-legal.com SEO score

82

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africa-legal.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Africa-legal.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

africa-legal.com

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