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allthings-africa.com

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Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

762 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Allthings-africa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 762 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

allthings-africa.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

allthings-africa.com

762 ms

www.afriseek.com

838 ms

css%20style.css

265 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

529 ms

jquery.1.10.1.js

1326 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Allthings-africa.com, 90% (44 requests) were made to Afriseek.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Afriseek.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.6 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

577.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Allthings-africa.com main page is 1.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 546.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 24.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 546.9 kB
  • After minification 461.0 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, Allthings Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 85.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 353.7 kB

  • Original 458.2 kB
  • After minification 323.1 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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 353.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Allthings-africa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (29%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Allthings Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

allthings-africa.com SEO score

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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 Allthings-africa.com 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 Allthings-africa.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

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