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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

discoverafrica.com

Best African Safaris: Tailored Safaris in Africa by Discover Africa Safaris

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

428 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

709 ms

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About Website

Visit discoverafrica.com now to see the best up-to-date Discover Africa content for Kenya and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about discoverafrica.com

Established in 2002, and with a team of destination experts who've travelled throughout Africa, you can trust Discover Africa Safaris to tailor-make an authentic luxury African safari for you. Go...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 428 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverafrica.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverafrica.com

428 ms

www.discoverafrica.com

550 ms

bootstrap.min.css

28 ms

fonts.css

226 ms

font-awesome.min.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverafrica.com, 18% (12 requests) were made to D2ru2mvuh5wx24.cloudfront.net and 9% (6 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (768 ms) belongs to the original domain Discoverafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (57%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

816.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverafrica.com main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 38.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.0 kB, which is 33% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 50.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 358.3 kB
  • After minification 326.9 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. Discover Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 803.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 984.2 kB
  • After compression 285.9 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 803.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 211.6 kB

  • Original 407.9 kB
  • After minification 372.3 kB
  • After compression 196.3 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. Discoverafrica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (71%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover 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 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

discoverafrica.com

discoverafrica.com

428 ms

www.discoverafrica.com

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550 ms

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fonts.css

fonts.css

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84 ms

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166 ms

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167 ms

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168 ms

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169 ms

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169 ms

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flags.css

245 ms

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329 ms

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70 ms

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64 ms

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246 ms

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333 ms

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411 ms

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576 ms

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768 ms

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62 ms

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129 ms

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72 ms

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72 ms

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70 ms

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Accessibility Review

discoverafrica.com accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

discoverafrica.com SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Discoverafrica.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 Discoverafrica.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

discoverafrica.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Discover Africa. 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: