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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

webafrica.org

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Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

420 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webafrica.org page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 11.7 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

webafrica.org performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

webafrica.org

258 ms

www.web4africa.net

1701 ms

web4africa.com

4745 ms

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6 ms

style.min.css

1190 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Webafrica.org, 43% (43 requests) were made to Web4africa.com and 23% (23 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) relates to the external source Web4africa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

720.5 kB

After Optimization

582.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Webafrica.org main page is 720.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 373.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 104.8 kB

  • Original 136.7 kB
  • After minification 135.7 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 104.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 373.3 kB
  • After minification 373.3 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. Web Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 200.9 kB
  • After minification 200.9 kB
  • After compression 175.7 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 25.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Webafrica.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (86%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web 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 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

webafrica.org accessibility score

89

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

webafrica.org 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

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

SEO Factors

webafrica.org SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

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 Webafrica.org 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 Webafrica.org 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 Web Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: