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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

theafrica.co.za

Africa News Aggregator Latest Africa News Headlines | theafrica

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Africa content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theafrica.co.za

The Africa news aggregator website, provide latest Africa news headlines, today breaking news with top stories. News aggregated from major Africa news sources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 1.5 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

theafrica.co.za performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theafrica.co.za

111 ms

www.theafrica.co.za

314 ms

bootstrap.min.css

109 ms

style2.css

101 ms

adsbygoogle.js

242 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Theafrica.co.za, 10% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.7 kB (44%)

Content Size

641.8 kB

After Optimization

358.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theafrica.co.za main page is 641.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 418.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.7 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 44.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 11.4 kB, which is 20% 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 44.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 18.5 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. The Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 115.3 kB

  • Original 418.1 kB
  • After minification 418.1 kB
  • After compression 302.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 115.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 122.2 kB

  • Original 147.7 kB
  • After minification 147.6 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Theafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (50%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theafrica.co.za

theafrica.co.za

111 ms

www.theafrica.co.za

www.theafrica.co.za

314 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

109 ms

style2.css

style2.css

101 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

242 ms

pub-2192472302330574

pub-2192472302330574

65 ms

js

js

73 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

44 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

95 ms

main.js

main.js

100 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

296 ms

logo3.png

logo3.png

120 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

121 ms

js

js

94 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

72 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

491 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

86 ms

collect

collect

64 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

28 ms

Accessibility Review

theafrica.co.za accessibility score

87

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

theafrica.co.za best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theafrica.co.za 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

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 Theafrica.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 Theafrica.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

theafrica.co.za

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