Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

africanbrains.education

THE TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA - A High-Level Virtual Event of Africa’s Education Leaders

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

914 ms

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About Website

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The Transformation of Education in Africa is a week of high-level online meetings and keynote presentations to support the challenges faced by African governments in light of the lessons learnt and th...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanbrains.education page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanbrains.education performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

2058 ms

gtranslate-style16.css

228 ms

style.min.css

448 ms

integrity-light.css

525 ms

integrity-light.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Africanbrains.education, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Africanbrains.education.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 734.1 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Africanbrains.education main page is 2.2 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 115.8 kB
  • After minification 113.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 97.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB

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. AFRICA Nbrains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 357.1 kB

  • Original 745.9 kB
  • After minification 745.9 kB
  • After compression 388.8 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 357.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 256.3 kB

  • Original 304.3 kB
  • After minification 302.6 kB
  • After compression 48.0 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. Africanbrains.education needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (57%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AFRICA Nbrains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

africanbrains.education 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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

africanbrains.education 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

SEO Factors

africanbrains.education SEO score

80

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 Africanbrains.education 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 Africanbrains.education 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 AFRICA Nbrains. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: