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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

afrileaks.org

A secure whistleblowing platform for African media | afriLEAKS

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

348 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

162 ms

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About Website

Welcome to afrileaks.org homepage info - get ready to check AfriLEAKS best content right away, or after learning these important things about afrileaks.org

afriLEAKS is an online system which enables users to anonymously send material to investigative media organisations of their choice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afrileaks.org page load time and found that the first response time was 348 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

afrileaks.org performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.254

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

afrileaks.org

348 ms

bootstrap.min.css

45 ms

font-awesome.min.css

56 ms

css

50 ms

style.css

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Afrileaks.org, 9% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (938 ms) belongs to the original domain Afrileaks.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.5 kB (26%)

Content Size

386.5 kB

After Optimization

286.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Afrileaks.org main page is 386.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 365.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 20.2 kB
  • After minification 18.9 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 14.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 365.2 kB
  • After minification 279.0 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. Obviously, AfriLEAKS needs image optimization as it can save up to 86.2 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22 B

  • Original 1.1 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Afrileaks.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (10%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AfriLEAKS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

afrileaks.org

afrileaks.org

348 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

45 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

56 ms

css

css

50 ms

style.css

style.css

87 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

33 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

61 ms

pixel-pattern.png

pixel-pattern.png

86 ms

logo-rgb-home-transparent.png

logo-rgb-home-transparent.png

179 ms

photo-logo.png

photo-logo.png

344 ms

100Reporters.png

100Reporters.png

268 ms

Daily_Monitor.png

Daily_Monitor.png

938 ms

MandG.png

MandG.png

265 ms

Guardian_Botswana.png

Guardian_Botswana.png

347 ms

mmegi.png

mmegi.png

265 ms

Oxpeckers.png

Oxpeckers.png

350 ms

PremiumTimes.png

PremiumTimes.png

430 ms

Verdade.png

Verdade.png

352 ms

thezimbawean.png

thezimbawean.png

428 ms

tigereyepi.png

tigereyepi.png

432 ms

newsday.png

newsday.png

435 ms

thesource.png

thesource.png

438 ms

globalwitness.png

globalwitness.png

514 ms

AfricaReport.png

AfricaReport.png

517 ms

savana_2.png

savana_2.png

520 ms

ktn.png

ktn.png

519 ms

oi.png

oi.png

523 ms

hermes.png

hermes.png

605 ms

hivos.png

hivos.png

608 ms

fpu.jpeg

fpu.jpeg

608 ms

ancir_logo.png

ancir_logo.png

690 ms

cfafrica.png

cfafrica.png

690 ms

NoticiaText-Regular.woff

NoticiaText-Regular.woff

601 ms

NoticiaText-Bold.woff

NoticiaText-Bold.woff

602 ms

AfriLeaksOne-Regular.woff

AfriLeaksOne-Regular.woff

521 ms

Accessibility Review

afrileaks.org accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

afrileaks.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

afrileaks.org SEO score

92

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Afrileaks.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Afrileaks.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

afrileaks.org

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