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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% 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

african-markets.com

african markets : The leading African Capital Markets Portal - african markets

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing African Markets content for Nigeria. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about african-markets.com

Provider of business news, datas, analysis, research and documentation about african stock markets, economies, companies and industries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed African-markets.com page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

african-markets.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,730 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

african-markets.com

181 ms

2362 ms

js

56 ms

style_1506.css

142 ms

common_styles.min.css

219 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (114 requests) were addressed to the original African-markets.com, 4% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain African-markets.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

952.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of African-markets.com main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 696.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 400.7 kB

  • Original 472.0 kB
  • After minification 457.5 kB
  • After compression 71.2 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 400.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 150.9 kB
  • After minification 136.2 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 Markets images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 67.0 kB

  • Original 696.4 kB
  • After minification 696.2 kB
  • After compression 629.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 123.1 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 115.3 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-markets.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (67%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Markets. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

african-markets.com accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

african-markets.com best practices score

75

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

african-markets.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise African-markets.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 African-markets.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

african-markets.com

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