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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

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Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

337 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Web4africa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 5.4 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

web4africa.com performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,120 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

web4africa.com

124 ms

www.web4africa.net

1535 ms

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1219 ms

css

126 ms

font-awesome.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Web4africa.com, 41% (12 requests) were made to Web4africa.net and 14% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Web4africa.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 737.6 kB (69%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

337.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Web4africa.com main page is 1.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 566.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 24.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 278.7 kB
  • After minification 113.6 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. Obviously, Web 4africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 165.1 kB or 59% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 406.7 kB

  • Original 566.5 kB
  • After minification 476.9 kB
  • After compression 159.8 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 406.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 141.1 kB

  • Original 197.9 kB
  • After minification 190.9 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Web4africa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web 4africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

web4africa.com

web4africa.com

124 ms

www.web4africa.net

www.web4africa.net

1535 ms

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1219 ms

css

css

126 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

110 ms

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1281 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

117 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

222 ms

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744 ms

e-201611.js

e-201611.js

118 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

760 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

192 ms

prum.min.js

prum.min.js

213 ms

web4africa2.png

web4africa2.png

1073 ms

border-img-x.png

border-img-x.png

835 ms

dotJoburg.png

dotJoburg.png

1572 ms

dotCapeTown.png

dotCapeTown.png

1325 ms

dotDurban.png

dotDurban.png

1321 ms

new-domain-extensions.png

new-domain-extensions.png

1889 ms

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103 ms

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119 ms

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134 ms

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132 ms

jquery.livehelp.js

jquery.livehelp.js

1928 ms

hovercard.css

hovercard.css

103 ms

services.css

services.css

143 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

collect

collect

103 ms

g.gif

g.gif

72 ms

Accessibility Review

web4africa.com accessibility score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

web4africa.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

web4africa.com SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Web4africa.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 Web4africa.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Web 4africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: