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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

photosofafrica.co.za

Photos of Africa|Film Maker|Wildlife and Travel Photographer|HD Stock Footage|Internet TV|Photo Safaris|Mobile APP

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

75 ms

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About Website

Welcome to photosofafrica.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Photos Of Africa best content right away, or after learning these important things about photosofafrica.co.za

Chris excels in both still photography and videography and has been photographing and documenting the marvelous Southern Africa for over 20 years. A beautiful collection of HIGH DEFINITION STOCK FOOTA...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Photosofafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

photosofafrica.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.photosofafrica.co.za

1449 ms

livechat.css

65 ms

quickshop.css

126 ms

subtle.css

101 ms

layout.js

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Photosofafrica.co.za, 43% (18 requests) were made to Cdn.zenfolio.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fast.appcues.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Photosofafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.6 kB (21%)

Content Size

727.7 kB

After Optimization

574.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Photosofafrica.co.za main page is 727.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 493.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 41.6 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 11.9 kB, which is 29% 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 35.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 188.5 kB
  • After minification 179.6 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. Photos Of Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 108.6 kB

  • Original 493.0 kB
  • After minification 493.0 kB
  • After compression 384.4 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 108.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 317 B

  • Original 4.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Photosofafrica.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (46%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Photos Of 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.photosofafrica.co.za

www.photosofafrica.co.za

1449 ms

livechat.css

livechat.css

65 ms

quickshop.css

quickshop.css

126 ms

subtle.css

subtle.css

101 ms

layout.js

layout.js

132 ms

8508271295.js

8508271295.js

32 ms

css

css

130 ms

32440.js

32440.js

31 ms

bundle.tracing.min.js

bundle.tracing.min.js

24 ms

captureconsole.min.js

captureconsole.min.js

28 ms

geo4.js

geo4.js

60 ms

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415 ms

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592 ms

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1679 ms

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1013 ms

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1639 ms

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bg-header.gif

119 ms

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icon-facebook-bw-22.png

118 ms

icon-linkedin-22-bw.png

icon-linkedin-22-bw.png

118 ms

icon-instagram-22-bw.png

icon-instagram-22-bw.png

118 ms

icon-twitter-bw-22.png

icon-twitter-bw-22.png

119 ms

icon-pinterest-22-bw.png

icon-pinterest-22-bw.png

119 ms

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empty.en-US.png

237 ms

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182 ms

icon-rss-22-bw.png

icon-rss-22-bw.png

145 ms

bg-footer.gif

bg-footer.gif

224 ms

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appcues.main.bfab1d29075e8eb936c658d7669e41d3fce53510.js

23 ms

core.asmx

core.asmx

1603 ms

core.asmx

core.asmx

1137 ms

a8508271295.html

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142 ms

container.bfab1d29075e8eb936c658d7669e41d3fce53510.css

container.bfab1d29075e8eb936c658d7669e41d3fce53510.css

39 ms

quant.js

quant.js

19 ms

group-icon-highlight.png

group-icon-highlight.png

40 ms

group-icon-highlight-xl.png

group-icon-highlight-xl.png

46 ms

image-item-highlight.gif

image-item-highlight.gif

28 ms

image-item-highlight-large.gif

image-item-highlight-large.gif

31 ms

Accessibility Review

photosofafrica.co.za accessibility score

62

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

photosofafrica.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

photosofafrica.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Photosofafrica.co.za 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 Photosofafrica.co.za 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

photosofafrica.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Photos Of Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: