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passports.mfa.gov.gh

Online Passport Application

Page Load Speed

32.9 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

23.7 sec

Page Rendered

6.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Passports.mfa.gov.gh page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 30.1 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 was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

passports.mfa.gov.gh performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

passport.mfa.gov.gh

2777 ms

horizontal-blue-white.css

3042 ms

modernizr.js

778 ms

jquery.min.js

1839 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

1620 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Passports.mfa.gov.gh, 24% (23 requests) were made to Cdn.teamwork.com and 20% (19 requests) were made to Itconsortium.teamwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Passport.mfa.gov.gh.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 953.5 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

585.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Passports.mfa.gov.gh main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 577.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.6 kB, which is 46% 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 38.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 346.1 kB
  • After minification 343.8 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. Passport S Mfa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 415.7 kB

  • Original 577.8 kB
  • After minification 548.4 kB
  • After compression 162.1 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 415.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 496.6 kB

  • Original 569.9 kB
  • After minification 478.6 kB
  • After compression 73.3 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. Passports.mfa.gov.gh needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 496.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (65%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Passport S Mfa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

passports.mfa.gov.gh 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 Passports.mfa.gov.gh 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 Passports.mfa.gov.gh 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 Passport S Mfa. 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: