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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

farai.com

Farai Chideya | Journalist, Speaker, Author and Academic

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

343 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Farai content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about farai.com

I listen critically to stories about our human journey, and track the data on people, governments, and our global society.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Farai.com page load time and found that the first response time was 343 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

farai.com performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

farai.com

343 ms

autoptimize_83968ed97362b2423427f62b1f670292.css

215 ms

css

30 ms

jquery.min.js

388 ms

e-202433.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Farai.com, 61% (22 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (818 ms) belongs to the original domain Farai.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

808.4 kB

After Optimization

570.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Farai.com main page is 808.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 288.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 179.5 kB

  • Original 212.0 kB
  • After minification 211.9 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 179.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 210.7 kB
  • After minification 210.7 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. Farai images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 58.6 kB

  • Original 288.7 kB
  • After minification 288.7 kB
  • After compression 230.1 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 58.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 96.8 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. Farai.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Farai. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

farai.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

farai.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

farai.com SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Farai.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 Farai.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 data is detected on the main page of Farai. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: