Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

espafrika.com

espAfrika - events management and production - Cape Town

Page Load Speed

15.1 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

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espAfrika, events management, production, consultant, artists agency, social development, festivals, concerts, roadshows, conferences, imbizos

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Key Findings

We analyzed Espafrika.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 11 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

espafrika.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.espafrika.com

4103 ms

style.min.css

336 ms

style.min.css

549 ms

style.min.css

553 ms

style.min.css

731 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Espafrika.com, 32% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Espafrika.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Espafrika.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 690.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 63.9 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 55.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 690.9 kB
  • After minification 638.5 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. EspAfrika images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 163 B

  • Original 174.2 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 174.0 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 379 B

  • Original 175.8 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 175.4 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. Espafrika.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (54%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EspAfrika. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

espafrika.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

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

espafrika.com best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

espafrika.com SEO score

91

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

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 Espafrika.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 Espafrika.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

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