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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

thisisafrica.me

This Is Africa - Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

688 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing This Is Africa content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thisisafrica.me

This is Africa (TIA) is a leading forum for African opinion, lifestyle, arts and music. TIA is available through this site, mobile apps and online radio.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisafrica.me page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thisisafrica.me performance score

88

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 273 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (212 requests) were addressed to the original Thisisafrica.me, 4% (10 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Thisisafrica.me.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (32%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thisisafrica.me main page is 4.0 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. 85% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 120.0 kB

  • Original 152.5 kB
  • After minification 152.1 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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 120.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 224.6 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. This Is Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 588.5 kB

  • Original 883.5 kB
  • After minification 879.9 kB
  • After compression 295.0 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 588.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 340.3 kB

  • Original 412.7 kB
  • After minification 404.4 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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. Thisisafrica.me needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 340.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 164 (61%)

Requests Now

269

After Optimization

105

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 269 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of This Is 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 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

thisisafrica.me accessibility score

96

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.

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

thisisafrica.me best practices score

77

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

thisisafrica.me SEO score

98

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 Thisisafrica.me 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 Thisisafrica.me 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

thisisafrica.me

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of This Is 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: