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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

african-connection.co.uk

African Connection - African Art and Curio Shop in Congleton, Cheshire! econgleton.co.uk!

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

476 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

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About Website

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African-Connection.co.uk - Congleton's Gateway to the Beautiful Continent of Africa! Our shop offers african gifts, curios and art pieces! Why not pop in and visit us in Duke Street in Congleton, Ches...

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Key Findings

We analyzed African-connection.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 476 ms and then it took 2.5 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

african-connection.co.uk performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

african-connection.co.uk

476 ms

african_connectionfade.js

250 ms

www.gvisit.com

206 ms

african_connection_top.gif

261 ms

spacer.gif

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original African-connection.co.uk, 2% (1 request) were made to Gvisit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) belongs to the original domain African-connection.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

767.4 kB

After Optimization

749.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of African-connection.co.uk main page is 767.4 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 744.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 15.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 744.5 kB
  • After minification 744.5 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. African Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 651 B

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 2.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (67%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Connection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

african-connection.co.uk

african-connection.co.uk

476 ms

african_connectionfade.js

african_connectionfade.js

250 ms

www.gvisit.com

www.gvisit.com

206 ms

african_connection_top.gif

african_connection_top.gif

261 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

78 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

193 ms

menu_r1_c1.gif

menu_r1_c1.gif

174 ms

menu_r1_c2.gif

menu_r1_c2.gif

181 ms

menu_r1_c3.gif

menu_r1_c3.gif

176 ms

menu_r1_c4.gif

menu_r1_c4.gif

190 ms

menu_r1_c5.gif

menu_r1_c5.gif

257 ms

menu_r1_c6.gif

menu_r1_c6.gif

258 ms

menu_r1_c7.gif

menu_r1_c7.gif

260 ms

menu_r1_c8.gif

menu_r1_c8.gif

279 ms

menu_r1_c9.gif

menu_r1_c9.gif

268 ms

menu_r1_c10.gif

menu_r1_c10.gif

334 ms

menu_r1_c11.gif

menu_r1_c11.gif

338 ms

menu_r1_c12.gif

menu_r1_c12.gif

338 ms

menu_r1_c13.gif

menu_r1_c13.gif

337 ms

african_connection_congleton_s15.jpg

african_connection_congleton_s15.jpg

655 ms

congleton_af_enter_store.jpg

congleton_af_enter_store.jpg

464 ms

congleton_af_visitors_link.jpg

congleton_af_visitors_link.jpg

502 ms

live_za_news_congleton.jpg

live_za_news_congleton.jpg

421 ms

bmenu_r1_c1.gif

bmenu_r1_c1.gif

416 ms

bmenu_r1_c2.gif

bmenu_r1_c2.gif

433 ms

bmenu_r1_c3.gif

bmenu_r1_c3.gif

494 ms

bmenu_r1_c4.gif

bmenu_r1_c4.gif

499 ms

bmenu_r1_c5.gif

bmenu_r1_c5.gif

512 ms

bmenu_r1_c6.gif

bmenu_r1_c6.gif

545 ms

bmenu_r1_c7.gif

bmenu_r1_c7.gif

570 ms

bmenu_r1_c8.gif

bmenu_r1_c8.gif

577 ms

bmenu_r1_c9.gif

bmenu_r1_c9.gif

578 ms

bmenu_r1_c10.gif

bmenu_r1_c10.gif

606 ms

bmenu_r1_c11.gif

bmenu_r1_c11.gif

628 ms

bmenu_r1_c12.gif

bmenu_r1_c12.gif

646 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

655 ms

side_logo3.jpg

side_logo3.jpg

736 ms

african_connection_congleton_s15.jpg

african_connection_congleton_s15.jpg

452 ms

african_connection_congleton_s10.jpg

african_connection_congleton_s10.jpg

406 ms

african_connection_congleton_s9.jpg

african_connection_congleton_s9.jpg

394 ms

african_connection_congleton_s3.jpg

african_connection_congleton_s3.jpg

421 ms

Accessibility Review

african-connection.co.uk accessibility score

50

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.

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

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

african-connection.co.uk best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

african-connection.co.uk SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise African-connection.co.uk 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 African-connection.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

african-connection.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of African Connection. 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: