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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

africaaz.com

Expert safari planner, South Africa holiday, honeymoon

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

About Website

Visit africaaz.com now to see the best up-to-date Africa Az content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about africaaz.com

Africa A-Z was established in 2004, an expert in African safaris and packages. We design tours for all safari holidays, particularily South Africa holiday.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africaaz.com page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 5.5 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

africaaz.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africaaz.com

134 ms

africaa-z.com

4716 ms

26d7137b5ab37de8cc720ec1b9e42fde6b6364d16b5aeb17e888515e837f5519.js

115 ms

26d7137b5ab37de8cc720ec1b9e42fdebb915c84379a509efe4e40adedf97884.js

83 ms

26d7137b5ab37de8cc720ec1b9e42fde9c87c32bbffdb8c11b47c12910dbf709.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Africaaz.com, 85% (11 requests) were made to Africaa-z.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) relates to the external source Africaa-z.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

750.4 kB

After Optimization

210.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Africaaz.com main page is 750.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 646.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 99.4 kB
  • After minification 96.6 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 80.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 181 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 4.8 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 Az images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 459.1 kB

  • Original 646.1 kB
  • After minification 646.1 kB
  • After compression 187.0 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 459.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Az. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

africaaz.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africaaz.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

africaaz.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

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 Africaaz.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 Africaaz.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 Az. 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: