Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

web4africa.com

Web4Africa Joins HOSTAFRICA

Page Load Speed

18 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

15.5 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

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About Website

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Web4Africa joins the family in HOSTAFRICA's latest acquisition.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Web4africa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 15.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

web4africa.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,190 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

web4africa.com

2210 ms

web4africa.com

6244 ms

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4 ms

style.min.css

2115 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

1088 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Web4africa.com, 24% (23 requests) were made to and 10% (9 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Web4africa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 137.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

744.6 kB

After Optimization

607.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Web4africa.com main page is 744.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 410.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 101.6 kB

  • Original 133.3 kB
  • After minification 132.2 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 101.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 295 B

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 191.2 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. Web4 Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 410.2 kB
  • After minification 410.2 kB
  • After compression 383.1 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

-83%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 8.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (87%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web4 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 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

web4africa.com accessibility score

89

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

77

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

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Web4 Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: