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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

africaregistry.co.za

Africa Registry | Complete Africa Pacific ccTLD Domain Names

Page Load Speed

897 ms in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

574 ms

Page Rendered

59 ms

africaregistry.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to africaregistry.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Africa Registry best content right away, or after learning these important things about africaregistry.co.za

Africa Registry is your Africa wide domain name registrar providing complete coveragage of African ccTLD domain names including .cn .jp .au .nz .my .id .in .hk .sg and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africaregistry.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 633 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Africaregistry.co.za rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

africaregistry.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africaregistry.com

264 ms

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

font-awesome.min.css

44 ms

main.min.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Africaregistry.co.za, 50% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (264 ms) relates to the external source Africaregistry.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 640.2 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

572.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africaregistry.co.za main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 686.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 760 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 896 B
  • After compression 401 B

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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 265 B, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 760 B or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 823 B

  • Original 303.1 kB
  • After minification 302.2 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. Africa Registry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 448.1 kB

  • Original 686.3 kB
  • After minification 665.5 kB
  • After compression 238.3 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 448.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 190.5 kB

  • Original 222.4 kB
  • After minification 222.0 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. Africaregistry.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

2

After Optimization

2

  • CSS

The browser has sent 2 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Registry. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.africaregistry.com

www.africaregistry.com

264 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

44 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

177 ms

Accessibility Review

africaregistry.co.za accessibility score

86

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

africaregistry.co.za 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

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

africaregistry.co.za SEO score

81

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Africaregistry.co.za 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 Africaregistry.co.za 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

africaregistry.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Africa Registry. 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: