Access forbesafrica.com. Forbes Africa

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.468

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

forbesafrica.com

225 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Forbesafrica.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (225 ms) belongs to the original domain Forbesafrica.com.

Content Size

5.0 kB

After Optimization

1.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Forbesafrica.com main page is 5.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 5.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

Original 5.0 kB
After minification 4.8 kB
After compression 1.8 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 3.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forbesafrica.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Forbesafrica.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

forbesafrica.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Forbes Africa. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: