Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

africa-newsroom.com

APO Group - Africa Newsroom / Press Releases Related to Africa

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

About Website

Welcome to africa-newsroom.com homepage info - get ready to check Africa Newsroom best content for Nigeria right away, or after learning these important things about africa-newsroom.com

Africa Newsroom offers the latest Africa-related news releases & official statements issued by companies, governments, international organizations, NGOs & the UN.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa-newsroom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africa-newsroom.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africa-newsroom.com

1009 ms

style.css

9 ms

618db16d6f7c5c05bcded71e54c813d9.css

20 ms

d159d3c255cc2f4cec5da3c2438b4ff0.js

31 ms

b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Africa-newsroom.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Africa-newsroom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (62%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

821.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Africa-newsroom.com 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 946.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 826.7 kB

  • Original 946.6 kB
  • After minification 923.4 kB
  • After compression 119.9 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 826.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 102.0 kB

  • Original 400.6 kB
  • After minification 298.6 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, Africa Newsroom needs image optimization as it can save up to 102.0 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 395.2 kB

  • Original 797.6 kB
  • After minification 797.6 kB
  • After compression 402.5 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 395.2 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (28%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Newsroom. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

africa-newsroom.com accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

africa-newsroom.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

africa-newsroom.com SEO score

83

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 Africa-newsroom.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 Africa-newsroom.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 Africa Newsroom. 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: