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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

africau.edu

Home - Africa University

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

490 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africau.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 2.7 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

africau.edu performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.666

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africau.edu

107 ms

africau.edu

721 ms

sbr-styles.css

39 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

74 ms

style.min.css

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Africau.edu, 5% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (721 ms) belongs to the original domain Africau.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africau.edu main page is 2.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 897.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 179.0 kB

  • Original 208.9 kB
  • After minification 182.7 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.1 kB, which is 13% 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 179.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 764.2 kB
  • After minification 736.1 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 U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 247.5 kB

  • Original 897.8 kB
  • After minification 897.8 kB
  • After compression 650.3 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 247.5 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 237.8 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 190.9 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. Africau.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.9 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 74 (82%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africau.edu

africau.edu

107 ms

africau.edu

africau.edu

721 ms

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sbr-styles.css

39 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

sbi-styles.min.css

74 ms

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style.min.css

136 ms

animate.css

animate.css

105 ms

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111 ms

cff-style.min.css

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101 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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44 ms

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106 ms

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112 ms

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168 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

140 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

142 ms

bootstrap.min.css

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174 ms

africau.css

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147 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

169 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

170 ms

footer.css

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171 ms

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185 ms

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44 ms

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234 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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200 ms

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203 ms

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252 ms

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207 ms

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208 ms

script.js

script.js

251 ms

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646 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

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265 ms

js

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95 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

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53 ms

ays-pb-public-min.css

ays-pb-public-min.css

263 ms

cff-scripts.min.js

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265 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

264 ms

custom-ajax-script.js

custom-ajax-script.js

267 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

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272 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

272 ms

maxmegamenu.js

maxmegamenu.js

297 ms

public.js

public.js

298 ms

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300 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

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340 ms

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182 ms

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268 ms

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225 ms

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225 ms

contact_me.js

contact_me.js

226 ms

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279 ms

agency.js

agency.js

280 ms

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316 ms

angular-ui-router.min.js

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279 ms

app.js

app.js

297 ms

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constant.js

301 ms

jsencrypt.js

jsencrypt.js

340 ms

restApi.js

restApi.js

302 ms

HomeController.js

HomeController.js

301 ms

CatalogueController.js

CatalogueController.js

338 ms

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339 ms

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294 ms

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Accessibility Review

africau.edu accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

africau.edu best practices score

75

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

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

africau.edu SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Africau.edu 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 Africau.edu 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

africau.edu

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