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afrik.com

Afrik.com - L'actualité de l'Afrique noire et du Maghreb

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

398 ms

Resources Loaded

9.9 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

Visit afrik.com now to see the best up-to-date Afrik content for Morocco and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about afrik.com

Afrik.com offre un journal quotidien sur l'actualité, la culture, l'économie, la santé, le sport de 56 pays d'Afrique et du Maghreb.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Afrik.com page load time and found that the first response time was 398 ms and then it took 10.2 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

afrik.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

afrik.com

398 ms

www.afrik.com

702 ms

menu.css

263 ms

style.css

389 ms

jquery.js

666 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Afrik.com, 13% (19 requests) were made to Ads2.afrik.com and 8% (12 requests) were made to Www2.adserverpub.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Js.adserverpub.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (41%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Afrik.com main page is 2.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 151.7 kB
  • After minification 150.9 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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 117.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 106.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB

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. Afrik images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 765.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 356.0 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 765.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 75.4 kB

  • Original 87.0 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Afrik.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (49%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

73

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Afrik. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

afrik.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Afrik.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Afrik.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 Afrik. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: