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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

africancraft.com

AfricanCraft.com: African art, craftspeople, artists, shops, books, educational materials ...

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

655 ms

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Dedicated to bringing the arts and the artisans of Africa online. Craftspeople, product designers and shops. Artisan web pages, retailers offering a wide selection of traditional and contemporary arti...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africancraft.com page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 917 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africancraft.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africancraft.com

113 ms

www.africancraft.com

169 ms

js

83 ms

aco2.css

24 ms

css2

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Africancraft.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (169 ms) belongs to the original domain Africancraft.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 29.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

460.2 kB

After Optimization

430.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africancraft.com main page is 460.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 439.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 7.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 439.9 kB
  • After minification 425.7 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 Craft images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 7.8 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Africancraft.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Craft. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

africancraft.com

africancraft.com

113 ms

www.africancraft.com

www.africancraft.com

169 ms

js

js

83 ms

aco2.css

aco2.css

24 ms

css2

css2

44 ms

acologo.gif

acologo.gif

45 ms

hp4.jpg

hp4.jpg

65 ms

hp5.jpg

hp5.jpg

66 ms

hp8.jpg

hp8.jpg

69 ms

hp18.jpg

hp18.jpg

69 ms

hp21.jpg

hp21.jpg

69 ms

hp19.jpg

hp19.jpg

71 ms

hp9.jpg

hp9.jpg

96 ms

hp6.jpg

hp6.jpg

96 ms

hp7.jpg

hp7.jpg

97 ms

hp10.jpg

hp10.jpg

97 ms

hp22.jpg

hp22.jpg

97 ms

hp17.jpg

hp17.jpg

98 ms

hp15.jpg

hp15.jpg

105 ms

hp11.jpg

hp11.jpg

105 ms

hp12.jpg

hp12.jpg

108 ms

hp13.jpg

hp13.jpg

109 ms

hp20.jpg

hp20.jpg

109 ms

hp14.jpg

hp14.jpg

114 ms

hp16.jpg

hp16.jpg

126 ms

hp3.jpg

hp3.jpg

124 ms

hp1.jpg

hp1.jpg

128 ms

hp2.jpg

hp2.jpg

129 ms

bot7.gif

bot7.gif

129 ms

bg23.jpg

bg23.jpg

95 ms

hpbg.jpg

hpbg.jpg

163 ms

indigo.jpg

indigo.jpg

106 ms

bgkuba.gif

bgkuba.gif

109 ms

font

font

99 ms

font

font

137 ms

Accessibility Review

africancraft.com accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africancraft.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

africancraft.com SEO score

92

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF8MB4

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africancraft.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Africancraft.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf8mb4. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

africancraft.com

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