Report Summary

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en.starafrica.com

Orange Football Club

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

531 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed En.starafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

en.starafrica.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

en.starafrica.com

1053 ms

css

24 ms

style.css

624 ms

style.css

644 ms

prettyPhoto.css

652 ms

Our browser made a total of 196 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original En.starafrica.com, 14% (27 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (23 requests) were made to Speed-s.pointroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain En.starafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

853.0 kB

In fact, the total size of En.starafrica.com main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 155.4 kB

  • Original 185.5 kB
  • After minification 151.0 kB
  • After compression 30.0 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 34.5 kB, which is 19% 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 155.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 591.9 kB
  • After minification 551.8 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. En Starafrica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 765.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 838.6 kB
  • After compression 245.9 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 765.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 166.4 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 25.2 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. En.starafrica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 109 (60%)

Requests Now

182

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 182 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of En Starafrica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 74 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

en.starafrica.com SEO score

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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 En.starafrica.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 En.starafrica.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 En Starafrica. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: