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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

africacentre.net

Africa Centre | Pan-African Arts & Culture, Social Innovation

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

548 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

102 ms

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About Website

Visit africacentre.net now to see the best up-to-date Africa Centre content for Nigeria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about africacentre.net

The Africa Centre in Cape Town, South Africa is an African arts and culture NGO striving to effect social change through contemporary artistic expression.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africacentre.net page load time and found that the first response time was 548 ms and then it took 3.4 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

africacentre.net performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africacentre.net

548 ms

main.min.css

191 ms

site-origin.min.css

191 ms

style.css

195 ms

astra-addon-6553adf0cdfda6-46656113.css

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Africacentre.net, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (695 ms) belongs to the original domain Africacentre.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.8 kB (73%)

Content Size

189.5 kB

After Optimization

51.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Africacentre.net main page is 189.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 128.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 105.9 kB

  • Original 128.1 kB
  • After minification 126.4 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 105.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.4 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.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (88%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.africacentre.net

www.africacentre.net

548 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

191 ms

site-origin.min.css

site-origin.min.css

191 ms

style.css

style.css

195 ms

astra-addon-6553adf0cdfda6-46656113.css

astra-addon-6553adf0cdfda6-46656113.css

193 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

201 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

197 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

284 ms

post-5423.css

post-5423.css

287 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

frontend-lite.min.css

291 ms

global.css

global.css

292 ms

post-49.css

post-49.css

291 ms

post-5436.css

post-5436.css

294 ms

post-5441.css

post-5441.css

382 ms

style.css

style.css

385 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

388 ms

css

css

33 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

391 ms

solid.min.css

solid.min.css

390 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

487 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

479 ms

widget-nav-menu.min.css

widget-nav-menu.min.css

395 ms

widget-theme-elements.min.css

widget-theme-elements.min.css

401 ms

widget-icon-list.min.css

widget-icon-list.min.css

384 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

400 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

474 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

494 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

496 ms

rsvp.js

rsvp.js

507 ms

astra-addon-6553adf0d0ded4-56081762.js

astra-addon-6553adf0d0ded4-56081762.js

507 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

506 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

506 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

608 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

685 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

609 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

609 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

695 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

608 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

591 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

609 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

605 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

603 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

670 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

676 ms

jquery.sticky.min.js

jquery.sticky.min.js

598 ms

atrk.js

atrk.js

60 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

61 ms

africacentre_logo.png

africacentre_logo.png

360 ms

1724.js

1724.js

44 ms

font

font

26 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

625 ms

font

font

35 ms

collect

collect

35 ms

js

js

64 ms

Accessibility Review

africacentre.net accessibility score

89

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

africacentre.net best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

africacentre.net SEO score

100

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

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 Africacentre.net 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 Africacentre.net 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

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