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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

1st.africa

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Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

234 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 1st.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 234 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

1st.africa performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.395

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1st.africa

234 ms

www.1st.africa

390 ms

css

23 ms

bootstrap.min.css

404 ms

style.css

350 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original 1st.africa, 26% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (627 ms) belongs to the original domain 1st.africa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 491.8 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 1st.africa main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 33.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.0 kB, which is 12% 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 27.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 998.1 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. 1 St images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 277.5 kB

  • Original 393.5 kB
  • After minification 386.7 kB
  • After compression 116.0 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 277.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 178.2 kB

  • Original 212.7 kB
  • After minification 197.2 kB
  • After compression 34.5 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. 1st.africa needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (48%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 1 St. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

1st.africa

1st.africa

234 ms

www.1st.africa

www.1st.africa

390 ms

css

css

23 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

404 ms

style.css

style.css

350 ms

memenu.css

memenu.css

152 ms

jquery-3.6.0.js

jquery-3.6.0.js

627 ms

memenu.js

memenu.js

152 ms

jquery.1stafrica.js

jquery.1stafrica.js

226 ms

jquery.cookie.1.4.1.js

jquery.cookie.1.4.1.js

227 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

270 ms

jquery.validator.js

jquery.validator.js

318 ms

jquery.bootbox.min.js

jquery.bootbox.min.js

325 ms

js.cookie.js

js.cookie.js

353 ms

bbnom.js

bbnom.js

394 ms

punycode.min.js

punycode.min.js

408 ms

cookieconsent.min.css

cookieconsent.min.css

318 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

340 ms

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239 ms

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mw-dots-600x400.png

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183 ms

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227 ms

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349 ms

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bw-dots-600x400.png

314 ms

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331 ms

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zw-dots-600x400.png

359 ms

ke-dots-600x400.png

ke-dots-600x400.png

388 ms

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1stafrica-loader.gif

314 ms

1st-Africa-map.png

1st-Africa-map.png

391 ms

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Accessibility Review

1st.africa accessibility score

94

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

1st.africa 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

1st.africa SEO score

87

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 1st.africa 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 1st.africa 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

1st.africa

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 1 St. 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: