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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

africanpowerplatform.org

African Power Platform - Home

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

484 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

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The African Power Platform aims to connect private and government stakeholders in Africa’s power sector. The platform helps circulate and propagate tenders, intelligence and business opportunities to ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanpowerplatform.org page load time and found that the first response time was 484 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanpowerplatform.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,320 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.731

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africanpowerplatform.org

484 ms

font-awesome-5.min.css

65 ms

font-awesome-v4-shims.css

63 ms

animate.min.css

61 ms

sppagebuilder.css

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Africanpowerplatform.org, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Downloads.mailchimp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (484 ms) belongs to the original domain Africanpowerplatform.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanpowerplatform.org main page is 1.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 78.5 kB

  • Original 95.3 kB
  • After minification 95.2 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 78.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. African Power Platform images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 212.0 kB
  • After minification 212.0 kB
  • After compression 177.9 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 34.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 148.0 kB
  • After minification 147.2 kB
  • After compression 105.1 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. Africanpowerplatform.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (85%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Power Platform. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africanpowerplatform.org

africanpowerplatform.org

484 ms

font-awesome-5.min.css

font-awesome-5.min.css

65 ms

font-awesome-v4-shims.css

font-awesome-v4-shims.css

63 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

61 ms

sppagebuilder.css

sppagebuilder.css

94 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

57 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

69 ms

owl.transitions.css

owl.transitions.css

112 ms

slide-animate.css

slide-animate.css

114 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

117 ms

content.css

content.css

121 ms

css

css

34 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

141 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

149 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

168 ms

template.css

template.css

185 ms

preset2.css

preset2.css

166 ms

custom.css

custom.css

172 ms

pagebuilder.css

pagebuilder.css

192 ms

frontend-edit.css

frontend-edit.css

202 ms

module_default.css

module_default.css

219 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

251 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

223 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

236 ms

jquery.parallax.js

jquery.parallax.js

244 ms

sppagebuilder.js

sppagebuilder.js

276 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

286 ms

addon.slider.js

addon.slider.js

280 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

288 ms

sp_carousel.js

sp_carousel.js

298 ms

pro-ls.loader.js

pro-ls.loader.js

299 ms

pro-lazysizes.js

pro-lazysizes.js

330 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

348 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

337 ms

main.js

main.js

337 ms

frontend-edit.js

frontend-edit.js

351 ms

acymailing_module.js

acymailing_module.js

352 ms

embed.js

embed.js

28 ms

1.js

1.js

54 ms

js

js

65 ms

core.js

core.js

376 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

100 ms

African_Power_Platform__Transparent.png

African_Power_Platform__Transparent.png

210 ms

font

font

135 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

160 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

196 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

226 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

244 ms

9d83fe695b14b979d83bf061c.js

9d83fe695b14b979d83bf061c.js

263 ms

renewables_power_1920x599.jpg

renewables_power_1920x599.jpg

178 ms

thermal_power_1920x599.jpg

thermal_power_1920x599.jpg

193 ms

transmission_line_1920x599.jpg

transmission_line_1920x599.jpg

192 ms

DerdfewwSG

DerdfewwSG

158 ms

Accessibility Review

africanpowerplatform.org accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

africanpowerplatform.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

africanpowerplatform.org SEO score

91

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

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 Africanpowerplatform.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 Africanpowerplatform.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

africanpowerplatform.org

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