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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

hostafrica.com

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Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 9.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostafrica.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hostafrica.com

2269 ms

gtm.js

48 ms

js

42 ms

mixpanel-js-wrapper.js

17 ms

mixpanel-2-latest.min.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Hostafrica.com, 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hostafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 720.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostafrica.com main page is 1.9 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 175.7 kB

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 178.4 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 35.7 kB, which is 17% 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 175.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 541.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 771.4 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, HOSTAFRICA needs image optimization as it can save up to 541.5 kB or 41% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 290.9 kB
  • After compression 288.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 60.8 kB
  • After compression 60.7 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. Hostafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (31%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HOSTAFRICA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hostafrica.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

hostafrica.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hostafrica.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Hostafrica.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 Hostafrica.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 HOSTAFRICA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: