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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

tri4africa.co.uk

Tri4Africa | Rob Forbes is running, swimming & cycling his way from the UK to South Africa 2010 in this epic triathlon.

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

402 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

About Website

Visit tri4africa.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Tri4 Africa content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tri4africa.co.uk

Follow Rob Forbes as he runs, swims and cycles from UK to Cape Town South Africa in this epic triathlon.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tri4africa.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 402 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tri4africa.co.uk performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tri4africa.co.uk

402 ms

node.css

87 ms

defaults.css

159 ms

system.css

157 ms

system-menus.css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Tri4africa.co.uk, 9% (6 requests) were made to Mycountdown.org and 6% (4 requests) were made to Tclaffiliates.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (498 ms) relates to the external source Aiso.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.7 kB (37%)

Content Size

454.0 kB

After Optimization

287.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tri4africa.co.uk main page is 454.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 330.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 38.0 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. 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 33.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 330.5 kB
  • After minification 212.6 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, Tri4 Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 117.9 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 57.2 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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

-47%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 25.5 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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. Tri4africa.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (56%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tri4 Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

tri4africa.co.uk accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

tri4africa.co.uk best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

tri4africa.co.uk SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Tri4africa.co.uk 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 Tri4africa.co.uk 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 Tri4 Africa. 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: