Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

african-footsteps.com

Experience the real African Safari - african-footsteps

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

215 ms

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About Website

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African Footsteps create journeys down roads less travelled. A holiday packed with adventure, fun, excitement, excellent wine and incredible food.

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Key Findings

We analyzed African-footsteps.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.9 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-footsteps.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.african-footsteps.com

1015 ms

aos.css

307 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.1.custom.min.css

298 ms

fonts.min.css

436 ms

theme.bundle.css

448 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original African-footsteps.com, 16% (5 requests) were made to Site-5m5ch98h.wsecdn1.websitecdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain African-footsteps.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.8 kB (22%)

Content Size

823.5 kB

After Optimization

642.7 kB

In fact, the total size of African-footsteps.com main page is 823.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 446.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 154.4 kB

  • Original 211.9 kB
  • After minification 210.1 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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 154.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 446.6 kB
  • After minification 443.7 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 Footsteps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 110.9 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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 14.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. African-footsteps.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (73%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Footsteps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

african-footsteps.com accessibility score

88

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

Best Practices

african-footsteps.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

african-footsteps.com SEO score

89

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

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 African-footsteps.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 African-footsteps.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 African Footsteps. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: