Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

africa-newsroom.com

APO Group - Africa Newsroom / Press Releases Related to Africa

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

293 ms

africa-newsroom.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to africa-newsroom.com homepage info - get ready to check Africa Newsroom best content for Nigeria right away, or after learning these important things about africa-newsroom.com

Africa Newsroom offers the latest Africa-related news releases & official statements issued by companies, governments, international organizations, NGOs & the UN.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa-newsroom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africa-newsroom.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.456

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africa-newsroom.com

1765 ms

825bf53a362370cc0dabf73165ebceab.css

6 ms

a38f4a531a3ae441278bb8620a732568.js

32 ms

b40b5b5c32ad9461e6c7ea66c10625ea.js

107 ms

3ef0fd907d3eade406140a0e29e0fe24.js

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Africa-newsroom.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Africa-newsroom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.2 kB (63%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

552.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Africa-newsroom.com main page is 1.5 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. Javascripts take 708.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 236.8 kB

  • Original 270.4 kB
  • After minification 270.4 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 236.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 314.1 kB
  • After minification 284.1 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. Africa Newsroom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 507.4 kB

  • Original 708.6 kB
  • After minification 708.6 kB
  • After compression 201.2 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 507.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.0 kB

  • Original 189.5 kB
  • After minification 188.9 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Africa-newsroom.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 156.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (38%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Newsroom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Best Practices

africa-newsroom.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

africa-newsroom.com SEO score

0

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 Africa-newsroom.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 Africa-newsroom.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 description is not detected on the main page of Africa Newsroom. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: