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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

talkafricana.com

African Culture, History and Rankings - TalkAfricana

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Talk Africana content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about talkafricana.com

Talkafricana is a Pan African site, aimed at helping Africans and the whole world in general get relevant and valuable African contents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talkafricana.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talkafricana.com performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.369

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talkafricana.com

45 ms

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511 ms

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107 ms

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91 ms

lazyload.min.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Talkafricana.com, 72% (28 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Listwand.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (603 ms) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 290.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Talkafricana.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 290.7 kB

  • Original 337.5 kB
  • After minification 337.4 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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 290.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.0 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. Talk Africana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 22.3 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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. Talkafricana.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talk Africana. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

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45 ms

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511 ms

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107 ms

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91 ms

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14 ms

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362 ms

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59 ms

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47 ms

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157 ms

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156 ms

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155 ms

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157 ms

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195 ms

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464 ms

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85 ms

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23 ms

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23 ms

Accessibility Review

talkafricana.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

talkafricana.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

talkafricana.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Talkafricana.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 Talkafricana.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

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