Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

ghananation.com

Index of /

Page Load Speed

28 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

25.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ghananation.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 27.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ghananation.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ghananation.com

220 ms

www.ghanagrio.com

543 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

57 ms

admin.css

59 ms

styles.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 306 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ghananation.com, 13% (41 requests) were made to Ghanagrio.com and 10% (30 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Ghanagrio.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (56%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ghananation.com main page is 6.8 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 543.1 kB

  • Original 640.6 kB
  • After minification 623.6 kB
  • After compression 97.5 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 543.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB

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. Ghananation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 1.9 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 197.4 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. Ghananation.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 176 (72%)

Requests Now

243

After Optimization

67

The browser has sent 243 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ghananation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ghananation.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

ghananation.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

ghananation.com SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ghananation.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ghananation.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 Ghananation. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: