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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

africangems.com

African Gems & Minerals Home Page - African Gems And Minerals

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

506 ms

Resources Loaded

12.5 sec

Page Rendered

351 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing African Gems content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about africangems.com

African Gems & Minerals is a Multifaceted International Company, Dealing in every aspect of Gemstones, Crystals, Fine Minerals, Fossils, Antiques, Faceting.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africangems.com page load time and found that the first response time was 506 ms and then it took 12.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africangems.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africangems.com

506 ms

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11107 ms

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287 ms

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233 ms

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224 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Africangems.com, 26% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to A.mailmunch.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Africangems.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 390.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

842.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africangems.com main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 741.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 131.3 kB

  • Original 155.0 kB
  • After minification 151.3 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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 131.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 35.6 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 Gems images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 741.3 kB
  • After minification 741.3 kB
  • After compression 576.8 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 164.5 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 94.3 kB

  • Original 300.6 kB
  • After minification 300.6 kB
  • After compression 206.4 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. Africangems.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (76%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Gems. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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506 ms

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11107 ms

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287 ms

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233 ms

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224 ms

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231 ms

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533 ms

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367 ms

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650 ms

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75 ms

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29 ms

site.js

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22 ms

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166 ms

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241 ms

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214 ms

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239 ms

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285 ms

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546 ms

gtm.js

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91 ms

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88 ms

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108 ms

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49 ms

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4 ms

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analytics.js

77 ms

Accessibility Review

africangems.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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africangems.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

africangems.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africangems.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 Africangems.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

africangems.com

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