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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

viaafrika.com

Via Afrika – Educational content for schools & TVET Colleges

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

Visit viaafrika.com now to see the best up-to-date Via Afrika content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about viaafrika.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Viaafrika.com page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

viaafrika.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value860 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

viaafrika.com

174 ms

viaafrika.com

2421 ms

style.min.css

94 ms

styles.css

184 ms

front.css

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Viaafrika.com, 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Viaafrika.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Viaafrika.com main page is 1.8 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 815.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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 117.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 461.5 kB
  • After minification 442.2 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. Via Afrika images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 815.9 kB
  • After minification 814.4 kB
  • After compression 752.3 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 365.6 kB
  • After minification 362.7 kB
  • After compression 283.3 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. Viaafrika.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 82.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 104 (83%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Via Afrika. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 69 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

viaafrika.com accessibility score

87

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

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

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

viaafrika.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

viaafrika.com SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Viaafrika.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 Viaafrika.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

viaafrika.com

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