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zikitu.com

Zikitu - East Africa and Swahili Music & Lyrics

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Zikitu is an African lyrics website providing Swahili lyrics and translations, music and albums of from Africa, mainly Tanzania, Kenya ,

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zikitu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zikitu.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

zikitu.com

131 ms

zikitu.com

725 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

83 ms

style.min.css

84 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Zikitu.com, 30% (27 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 14% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Zikitu.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 789.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 115.0 kB

  • Original 134.5 kB
  • After minification 121.7 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 115.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 591 B

  • Original 789.2 kB
  • After minification 788.6 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. Zikitu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 201.6 kB
  • After minification 201.5 kB
  • After compression 189.1 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

-72%

Potential reduce by 166.2 kB

  • Original 230.6 kB
  • After minification 230.4 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. Zikitu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (56%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zikitu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

zikitu.com SEO score

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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 Zikitu.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 Zikitu.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 Zikitu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: