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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

buildafrique.com

Buildafrique™ Group - End-to-End Development Consultancy | Project Finance | Structured Investments

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

439 ms

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About Website

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End-to-End Development Consultancy in Kenya, Real Estate Finance, Feasibility Studies, Construction Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Property Investments.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildafrique.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildafrique.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Buildafrique.com, 9% (9 requests) were made to Property-listings.buildafrique.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Investment-offerings.buildafrique.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildafrique.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (19%)

Content Size

11.0 MB

After Optimization

8.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildafrique.com main page is 11.0 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 10.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 136.8 kB

  • Original 165.4 kB
  • After minification 165.3 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 136.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 10.1 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Obviously, Buildafrique needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.0 MB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 616.7 kB
  • After minification 616.7 kB
  • After compression 584.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 41 B

  • Original 127.6 kB
  • After minification 127.6 kB
  • After compression 127.6 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. Buildafrique.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (54%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buildafrique. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

buildafrique.com accessibility score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

buildafrique.com 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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

buildafrique.com SEO score

84

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

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 Buildafrique.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 Buildafrique.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Buildafrique. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: