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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

travelafricaoverland.com

Travel Africa Overland - Our overland trip from Cape Town back to Holland

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

497 ms

About Website

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The overland trip from Cape Town though Africa, the Middle East, West Asia to Europe. Read about stories and let the pictures inspire you to travel yourself

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Key Findings

We analyzed Travelafricaoverland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

travelafricaoverland.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,060 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.788

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

travelafricaoverland.com

290 ms

travelafricaoverland.com

1913 ms

js

157 ms

bootstrap.min.css

98 ms

style.min.css

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Travelafricaoverland.com, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Travelafricaoverland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Travelafricaoverland.com main page is 2.6 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. 75% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 127.5 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 108.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 307 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Travel Africa Overland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 514.2 kB
  • After minification 514.2 kB
  • After compression 463.3 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 97.9 kB
  • After minification 94.6 kB
  • After compression 63.0 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. Travelafricaoverland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (47%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Travel Africa Overland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

travelafricaoverland.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

travelafricaoverland.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

travelafricaoverland.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 Travelafricaoverland.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 Travelafricaoverland.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 Travel Africa Overland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: