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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

african.business

African Business

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

588 ms

Page Rendered

2.8 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 75 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

african.business performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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75 ms

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61 ms

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59 ms

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33 ms

jquery.min.js

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original African.business, 38% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (166 ms) belongs to the original domain African.business.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 436.1 kB (64%)

Content Size

676.5 kB

After Optimization

240.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of African.business main page is 676.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 389.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 322.2 kB

  • Original 389.0 kB
  • After minification 387.5 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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 322.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 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 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 106.4 kB
  • After compression 104.1 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

-70%

Potential reduce by 111.5 kB

  • Original 158.3 kB
  • After minification 48.4 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 111.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (60%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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75 ms

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61 ms

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59 ms

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33 ms

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46 ms

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81 ms

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45 ms

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73 ms

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95 ms

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65 ms

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83 ms

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23 ms

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32 ms

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70 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

african.business accessibility score

87

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

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>).

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

african.business 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

    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: