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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

allafrica.com

Home - allAfrica.com

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

741 ms

Page Rendered

593 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Allafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

allafrica.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

allafrica.com

77 ms

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136 ms

consent_215885.js

83 ms

bootstrap-xxs-tn.min.css

162 ms

bootstrap.min.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Allafrica.com, 21% (14 requests) were made to Cdn09.allafrica.com and 14% (9 requests) were made to Cdn05.allafrica.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (336 ms) relates to the external source Cdn07.allafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 258.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Allafrica.com main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 226.5 kB

  • Original 258.9 kB
  • After minification 245.1 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 226.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. AllAfrica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 29 B

  • Original 46.7 kB
  • After minification 46.7 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 106 B

  • Original 45.0 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Allafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (14%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AllAfrica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

allafrica.com accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

allafrica.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

allafrica.com SEO score

84

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 doesn't use 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 Allafrica.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 Allafrica.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

allafrica.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of AllAfrica. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: