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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

africanarguments.org

African Arguments

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

972 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

350 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing African Arguments content for Pakistan. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about africanarguments.org

Vigorous Debates on African Politics and Business. African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanarguments.org page load time and found that the first response time was 972 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanarguments.org performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,810 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.432

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africanarguments.org

972 ms

normalize.min.css

148 ms

grid.css

218 ms

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220 ms

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149 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Africanarguments.org, 8% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Html5-player.libsyn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (972 ms) belongs to the original domain Africanarguments.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 831.3 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

976.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanarguments.org main page is 1.8 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 755.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 55.5 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 55.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 753.1 kB
  • After minification 689.1 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 Arguments images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 516.2 kB

  • Original 755.2 kB
  • After minification 728.1 kB
  • After compression 239.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 516.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 195.6 kB

  • Original 229.2 kB
  • After minification 197.1 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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. Africanarguments.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (63%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Arguments. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africanarguments.org

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Accessibility Review

africanarguments.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

africanarguments.org best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

africanarguments.org SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Africanarguments.org 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 Africanarguments.org 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

africanarguments.org

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