Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

covidgambia.org

Covid Gambia - Latest news about Corona Virus (COVID-19) - Corona Virus Covid-19 - The Gambia

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

931 ms

covidgambia.org screenshot

About Website

Visit covidgambia.org now to see the best up-to-date Covid Gambia content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about covidgambia.org

To share information with Gambians and Diaspora Gambians about latest advice/ information and to raise funds to support The Gambia during this trying time. Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Visit covidgambia.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Covidgambia.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

covidgambia.org performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

covidgambia.org

2327 ms

siteground-optimizer-combined-css-54a2a96bb48f818c6dc390bf9c8d89a5.css

914 ms

jquery.min.js

419 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

167 ms

email-subscribers-public.js

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Covidgambia.org, 29% (30 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Covidgambia.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Covidgambia.org main page is 1.7 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 949.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 176.1 kB

  • Original 210.5 kB
  • After minification 209.7 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 176.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 949.5 kB
  • After minification 901.2 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. Covid Gambia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 333.9 kB
  • After minification 333.0 kB
  • After compression 312.4 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 198.9 kB
  • After minification 198.9 kB
  • After compression 194.1 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. Covidgambia.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (88%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Covid Gambia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

covidgambia.org accessibility score

88

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

covidgambia.org 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

SEO Factors

covidgambia.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Covidgambia.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 Covidgambia.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 Covid Gambia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: