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africaknows.com

African Stock Photos and Royalty-Free images | Africa Knows

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

663 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africaknows.com page load time and found that the first response time was 663 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africaknows.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

africaknows.com

663 ms

www.africaknows.com

1846 ms

css

56 ms

bootstrap.min.css

32 ms

style.css

843 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Africaknows.com, 11% (9 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Africaknows.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 546.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africaknows.com main page is 6.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.1 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 30.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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. Africa Knows images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 155.0 kB

  • Original 353.4 kB
  • After minification 322.6 kB
  • After compression 198.3 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 155.0 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 316.7 kB

  • Original 373.8 kB
  • After minification 326.6 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. Africaknows.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 316.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (75%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Knows. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

africaknows.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africaknows.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Africaknows.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 Knows. 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: