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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

gateway-africa.com

Private Safari Tours in Namibia | Affordable African Adventures

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

537 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gateway-africa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 5.2 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

gateway-africa.com performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

80/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gateway-africa.com

757 ms

gateway-africa.com

1159 ms

bootstrap.css

611 ms

style.css

840 ms

nivo-lightbox.css

901 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Gateway-africa.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gateway-africa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

339.4 kB

After Optimization

317.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gateway-africa.com main page is 339.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 272.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.3 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 272.5 kB
  • After minification 268.8 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. Gateway Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 93 B

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. Gateway-africa.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (33%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gateway Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gateway-africa.com

gateway-africa.com

757 ms

gateway-africa.com

gateway-africa.com

1159 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

611 ms

style.css

style.css

840 ms

nivo-lightbox.css

nivo-lightbox.css

901 ms

default.css

default.css

892 ms

logo.png

logo.png

890 ms

about.jpg

about.jpg

1172 ms

WHOC-19%20Trained.png

WHOC-19%20Trained.png

978 ms

private-ranger-guide.jpg

private-ranger-guide.jpg

1185 ms

14-day-namibia-wildlife-safari.jpg

14-day-namibia-wildlife-safari.jpg

1493 ms

himba.jpg

himba.jpg

1469 ms

exclusive-namibia-safaris.jpg

exclusive-namibia-safaris.jpg

1247 ms

solo-travel-groups-for-women.jpg

solo-travel-groups-for-women.jpg

1350 ms

1-namibia.jpg

1-namibia.jpg

1508 ms

ranger-rent.jpg

ranger-rent.jpg

1522 ms

01.jpg

01.jpg

1665 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

1726 ms

jquery.1.11.1.js

jquery.1.11.1.js

2128 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

1891 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

1906 ms

nivo-lightbox.js

nivo-lightbox.js

1891 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

2062 ms

jqBootstrapValidation.js

jqBootstrapValidation.js

2097 ms

main.js

main.js

2280 ms

03.jpg

03.jpg

2226 ms

intro-bg.jpg

intro-bg.jpg

1713 ms

team-bg.jpg

team-bg.jpg

1584 ms

menu-bg.jpg

menu-bg.jpg

1849 ms

Accessibility Review

gateway-africa.com accessibility score

86

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

gateway-africa.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gateway-africa.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gateway-africa.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 Gateway-africa.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

gateway-africa.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gateway 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: