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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

dots.africa

Background Screening Platform • Dots Africa

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

738 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dots.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 738 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dots.africa performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dots.africa

738 ms

www.dots.africa

1504 ms

css

28 ms

cookieNSCconsent.min.css

219 ms

style.min.css

438 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Dots.africa, 16% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Dots.africa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

670.3 kB

After Optimization

504.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dots.africa main page is 670.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 297.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 118.0 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 138.5 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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 118.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 297.1 kB
  • After minification 275.7 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. Dots images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 160.0 kB
  • After minification 160.0 kB
  • After compression 142.9 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 17.1 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 60.3 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. Dots.africa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (76%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dots. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dots.africa

dots.africa

738 ms

www.dots.africa

www.dots.africa

1504 ms

css

css

28 ms

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cookieNSCconsent.min.css

219 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

438 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

647 ms

header-footer.min.css

header-footer.min.css

656 ms

e-animation-shrink.min.css

e-animation-shrink.min.css

900 ms

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913 ms

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917 ms

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910 ms

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widget-heading.min.css

865 ms

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widget-text-editor.min.css

873 ms

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widget-social-icons.min.css

1083 ms

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1092 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

1115 ms

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1137 ms

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1149 ms

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1135 ms

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1516 ms

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1309 ms

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1330 ms

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1353 ms

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transitions.min.css

1355 ms

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1364 ms

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1527 ms

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1549 ms

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widget-carousel-module-base.min.css

1570 ms

post-15.css

post-15.css

1572 ms

post-40.css

post-40.css

1582 ms

post-53.css

post-53.css

1735 ms

style.css

style.css

1745 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1982 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1787 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

1790 ms

jquery.bind-first-0.2.3.min.js

jquery.bind-first-0.2.3.min.js

1798 ms

js.cookie-2.1.3.min.js

js.cookie-2.1.3.min.js

1952 ms

public.js

public.js

1964 ms

widget-post-info.min.css

widget-post-info.min.css

2058 ms

custom-widget-icon-list.min.css

custom-widget-icon-list.min.css

1847 ms

motion-fx.min.css

motion-fx.min.css

1628 ms

cookieNSCconsent.min.js

cookieNSCconsent.min.js

1531 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

1533 ms

e-gallery.min.js

e-gallery.min.js

1338 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

1408 ms

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

1383 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

1369 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

1481 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

1491 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

1339 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

1409 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1386 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

1578 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

1478 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

133 ms

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613 ms

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708 ms

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920 ms

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822 ms

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833 ms

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924 ms

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1053 ms

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1142 ms

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1143 ms

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Accessibility Review

dots.africa accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

dots.africa best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dots.africa SEO score

92

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

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 Dots.africa 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 Dots.africa 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

dots.africa

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