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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

930 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

About Website

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Sabinet African Archives is a growing index of consolidated African archives dating back as far as the 1600s as well as special collections

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 930 ms and then it took 9.5 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

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za

930 ms

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za

3133 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

963 ms

style.min.css

1457 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

743 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za, 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 857.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za main page is 3.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 138.7 kB

  • Original 167.8 kB
  • After minification 154.4 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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 138.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Africanarchives Sabinet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 161.0 kB

  • Original 247.5 kB
  • After minification 246.2 kB
  • After compression 86.5 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 161.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 498.1 kB

  • Original 583.0 kB
  • After minification 579.1 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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. Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 498.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (76%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africanarchives Sabinet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za accessibility score

87

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

[role] values are not valid

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africanarchives.sabinet.co.za SEO score

96

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Africanarchives.sabinet.co.za 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 Africanarchives Sabinet. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: