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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

africanexaminer.com

African Examiner - First With Online News

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanexaminer.com page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanexaminer.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africanexaminer.com

307 ms

style.css

118 ms

default.css

114 ms

custom-responsive.css

116 ms

analytics.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Africanexaminer.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to A.mailmunch.co and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (435 ms) belongs to the original domain Africanexaminer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 344.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanexaminer.com main page is 1.5 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 629.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 254.0 kB

  • Original 297.9 kB
  • After minification 287.2 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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 254.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 629.0 kB
  • After minification 590.2 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 Examiner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 510.6 kB
  • After minification 510.2 kB
  • After compression 465.4 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 98.3 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. Africanexaminer.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (67%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Examiner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.africanexaminer.com

www.africanexaminer.com

307 ms

style.css

style.css

118 ms

default.css

default.css

114 ms

custom-responsive.css

custom-responsive.css

116 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

62 ms

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34 ms

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100 ms

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103 ms

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100 ms

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101 ms

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101 ms

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107 ms

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114 ms

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117 ms

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115 ms

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108 ms

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109 ms

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119 ms

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120 ms

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196 ms

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125 ms

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298 ms

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313 ms

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206 ms

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312 ms

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315 ms

flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js

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207 ms

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207 ms

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211 ms

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212 ms

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221 ms

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77 ms

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104 ms

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204 ms

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219 ms

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312 ms

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300 ms

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rmp-menu.js

309 ms

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305 ms

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389 ms

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70 ms

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366 ms

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435 ms

sassy-social-share-public.js

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408 ms

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339 ms

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15 ms

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49 ms

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365 ms

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366 ms

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137 ms

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130 ms

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130 ms

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129 ms

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277 ms

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60 ms

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35 ms

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92 ms

right.gif

right.gif

91 ms

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84 ms

styles.css

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47 ms

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75 ms

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76 ms

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52 ms

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4 ms

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4 ms

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197 ms

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82 ms

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36 ms

Accessibility Review

africanexaminer.com accessibility score

82

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africanexaminer.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africanexaminer.com SEO score

84

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 Africanexaminer.com 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 Africanexaminer.com 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 Examiner. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: