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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

voazimbabwe.com

VOA Zimbabwe

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Voazimbabwe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

voazimbabwe.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,650 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.voazimbabwe.com

1060 ms

TemplatePage.cssx

26 ms

search2.cssx

18 ms

jquery-1.10.2.x.js

47 ms

Common.Title.x.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Voazimbabwe.com, 24% (27 requests) were made to Gdb.voanews.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Voazimbabwe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.5 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

902.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Voazimbabwe.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 721.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 124.2 kB

  • Original 155.5 kB
  • After minification 138.2 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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 17.3 kB, which is 11% 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 124.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 721.8 kB
  • After minification 669.1 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. VOA Zimbabwe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 362.5 kB

  • Original 564.3 kB
  • After minification 563.7 kB
  • After compression 201.8 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 362.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (55%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VOA Zimbabwe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

voazimbabwe.com accessibility score

85

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

voazimbabwe.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

voazimbabwe.com SEO score

84

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 Voazimbabwe.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 Voazimbabwe.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

voazimbabwe.com

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