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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

african.business

African Business

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

751 ms

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed African.business page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

african.business performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.398

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

african.business

67 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-css-a26634d21ef00c4f0353830b52221037.css

51 ms

style.php

367 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

38 ms

hooks.min.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original African.business, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) belongs to the original domain African.business.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

612.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of African.business main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 423.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 346.3 kB

  • Original 419.8 kB
  • After minification 419.5 kB
  • After compression 73.5 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 346.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 159.5 kB
  • After minification 159.5 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 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 423.4 kB
  • After minification 423.4 kB
  • After compression 378.3 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 45.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 99.0 kB

  • Original 100.1 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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.business needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.0 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

african.business

african.business

67 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-css-a26634d21ef00c4f0353830b52221037.css

siteground-optimizer-combined-css-a26634d21ef00c4f0353830b52221037.css

51 ms

style.php

style.php

367 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

38 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

35 ms

w.js

w.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

js

js

78 ms

flickity.min.css

flickity.min.css

35 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

28 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

74 ms

url.min.js

url.min.js

72 ms

api-fetch.min.js

api-fetch.min.js

72 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-js-e437ce06c29e3d1c627c746aac8fba6e.js

siteground-optimizer-combined-js-e437ce06c29e3d1c627c746aac8fba6e.js

74 ms

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v84a3a4012de94ce1a686ba8c167c359c1696973893317

74 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

149 ms

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158 ms

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154 ms

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20221129_ldd002.jpg

156 ms

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1843_20221122_inner-mongolia-001.jpg

155 ms

google-logo.png

google-logo.png

83 ms

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top-companies-compressed.jpg

84 ms

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kiev-200x150.jpg

155 ms

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000_app2000041802470-200x196.jpg

84 ms

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adobestock_491698175-200x133.jpeg

84 ms

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000_34jm4l3-700x467.jpg

176 ms

g.gif

g.gif

114 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

5 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

20 ms

Accessibility Review

african.business accessibility score

83

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

african.business 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

african.business SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise African.business 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.business 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 African. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: