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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

informer.africa

Account Suspended

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

759 ms

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Informer.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 759 ms and then it took 14.1 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

informer.africa performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

informer.africa

759 ms

informer.africa

3354 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

419 ms

widget-default.css

636 ms

bundle.css

719 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (110 requests) were addressed to the original Informer.africa, 7% (15 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (13 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Informer.africa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 592.7 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

992.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Informer.africa main page is 1.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 704.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 234.1 kB

  • Original 278.3 kB
  • After minification 260.9 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. 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 234.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.9 kB

  • Original 704.6 kB
  • After minification 683.7 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. Informer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 232.5 kB
  • After minification 232.5 kB
  • After compression 206.1 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 26.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 311.3 kB

  • Original 370.2 kB
  • After minification 370.1 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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. Informer.africa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (56%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Informer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

informer.africa accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

informer.africa best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

informer.africa SEO score

85

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Informer.africa 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 Informer.africa 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 Informer. 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: