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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

talksafrica.com

TalkS Africa – Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

454 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talksafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 41 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

talksafrica.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talksafrica.com

41 ms

opinionafricadotcom.wordpress.com

37 ms

webfont.js

130 ms

174 ms

style.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Talksafrica.com, 27% (18 requests) were made to Opinionafricadotcom.files.wordpress.com and 19% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (776 ms) relates to the external source Opinionafricadotcom.files.wordpress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 104.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Talksafrica.com main page is 2.1 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 114.6 kB
  • After minification 110.0 kB
  • After compression 26.9 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. 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 87.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. TalkS Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 789 B

  • Original 156.6 kB
  • After minification 156.6 kB
  • After compression 155.8 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 171 B

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 20.1 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Talksafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (41%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TalkS 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

talksafrica.com

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41 ms

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37 ms

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Accessibility Review

talksafrica.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

talksafrica.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

talksafrica.com SEO score

92

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

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 Talksafrica.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 Talksafrica.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

talksafrica.com

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