Access africanbrains.education. THE TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA - A High-Level Virtual Event of Africa’s Education Leaders

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

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gtranslate-style16.css

228 ms

style.min.css

448 ms

integrity-light.css

525 ms

integrity-light.css

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Africanbrains.education, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Africanbrains.education.

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Africanbrains.education main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

Original 115.8 kB
After minification 113.9 kB
After compression 18.4 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 97.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.0 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 Nbrains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 357.1 kB

Original 745.9 kB
After minification 745.9 kB
After compression 388.8 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 357.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 256.3 kB

Original 304.3 kB
After minification 302.6 kB
After compression 48.0 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. Africanbrains.education needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 256.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AFRICA Nbrains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.