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lafargewapco.com

Lafarge Africa Plc - Cement, aggregates and concrete

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

404 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

247 ms

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About Website

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A leading Sub-Saharan Africa building materials company: cement, aggregates and concrete. A member of LafargeHolcim, and listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lafargewapco.com page load time and found that the first response time was 404 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lafargewapco.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.lafarge.com.ng

404 ms

OpenTheImagePopup.js

128 ms

Print.js

165 ms

Resize.js

166 ms

wysiwyg.js

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Lafargewapco.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Logi104.xiti.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (913 ms) relates to the external source Lafarge.com.ng.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Lafargewapco.com main page is 1.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 55.4 kB
  • After minification 48.5 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 6.9 kB, which is 12% 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 45.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Lafarge Wapco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 147.0 kB

  • Original 216.8 kB
  • After minification 211.6 kB
  • After compression 69.8 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 147.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. Lafargewapco.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (60%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lafarge Wapco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lafargewapco.com SEO score

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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 Lafargewapco.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 Lafargewapco.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 description is not detected on the main page of Lafarge Wapco. 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: