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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

selectafrica.net

Home - Select Africa

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

528 ms

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selectafrica.net page load time and found that the first response time was 528 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

selectafrica.net performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

selectafrica.net

528 ms

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2752 ms

menu-image.css

737 ms

dashicons.min.css

1217 ms

loader.css

745 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Selectafrica.net, 18% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Selectafrica.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (62%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Selectafrica.net main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 185.3 kB
  • After minification 182.4 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 164.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 591.9 kB
  • After minification 529.1 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. Obviously, Select Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 62.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 674.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 487.3 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 674.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 154.0 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. Selectafrica.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (73%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Select 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 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

selectafrica.net accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

selectafrica.net best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

selectafrica.net SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Selectafrica.net 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 Selectafrica.net 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

selectafrica.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Select Africa. 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: