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africabasket.com

African Basketball News, Scores, Stats, Analysis, Standings - afrobasket

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africabasket.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africabasket.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

africabasket.com

190 ms

www.afrobasket.com

336 ms

ourstyle.css

158 ms

ndscripts2.js

960 ms

addthis_widget.js

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Africabasket.com, 55% (31 requests) were made to Eurobasket.com and 16% (9 requests) were made to Afrobasket.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (960 ms) relates to the external source Eurobasket.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 477.5 kB (59%)

Content Size

802.9 kB

After Optimization

325.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Africabasket.com main page is 802.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 493.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 122.4 kB

  • Original 154.8 kB
  • After minification 145.4 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 122.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 116.7 kB
  • After minification 101.7 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, Africabasket needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.9 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 311.6 kB

  • Original 493.5 kB
  • After minification 490.8 kB
  • After compression 181.8 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 311.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. Africabasket.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (58%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africabasket. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

africabasket.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 Africabasket.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 Africabasket.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 Africabasket. 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: