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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

africa.film

Africa.film :: Africa's Best Videos. Chosen By Africa's Best Filmmakers.

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

514 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

342 ms

africa.film screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Africa content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about africa.film

Watch Africa's best videos, as chosen by Africa's best filmmakers and the world's best film festivals and websites.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa.film page load time and found that the first response time was 514 ms and then it took 4 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.film performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value90.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value138.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africa.film

514 ms

style.min.css

94 ms

settings-ed7563b3c42e9828fcc9fe9a7c357877.css

102 ms

fontello-0302f0ec28208114491b677fa8b37cb1.css

109 ms

icon-73da6af1a9b2f6079172417c0c2b0177.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Africa.film, 84% (37 requests) were made to 1x77o23r0ru72cdi133cih5f-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cloud.typography.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cloud.typography.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africa.film main page is 5.8 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 114.9 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 92.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 986 B

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 95.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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.film has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (46%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africa.film

africa.film

514 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

94 ms

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settings-ed7563b3c42e9828fcc9fe9a7c357877.css

102 ms

fontello-0302f0ec28208114491b677fa8b37cb1.css

fontello-0302f0ec28208114491b677fa8b37cb1.css

109 ms

icon-73da6af1a9b2f6079172417c0c2b0177.css

icon-73da6af1a9b2f6079172417c0c2b0177.css

152 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

124 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

110 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

1523 ms

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145 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

84 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

194 ms

email-decode.min.js

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77 ms

css

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209 ms

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154 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

80 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

190 ms

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188 ms

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189 ms

revolution.addon.typewriter.min.js

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186 ms

esg.min.js

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190 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

189 ms

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431 ms

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ga-af5c617d36e28d19710b882a6824e213.js

168 ms

dummy.png

dummy.png

116 ms

Nefta-Football-Club-scaled.jpg

Nefta-Football-Club-scaled.jpg

104 ms

BUDDHA_IN_AFRICA_04.jpg

BUDDHA_IN_AFRICA_04.jpg

105 ms

Brotherhood-short-film.jpg

Brotherhood-short-film.jpg

133 ms

supamodo.jpg

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135 ms

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130 ms

Liyana.jpg

Liyana.jpg

130 ms

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131 ms

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Ramy-scaled.jpg

137 ms

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171 ms

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136 ms

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173 ms

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160 ms

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162 ms

Batuka-3.jpg

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173 ms

STROOP-Karen_Trendler-feeds-4-day-old-calf-South-Africa-%C2%A9SusanScott.jpg

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169 ms

collect

collect

188 ms

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fa-solid-900.woff

528 ms

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fa-brands-400.woff

526 ms

YourWordPressDXP728x90.png

YourWordPressDXP728x90.png

203 ms

africadotfilm-logo.png

africadotfilm-logo.png

44 ms

Accessibility Review

africa.film accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africa.film best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

africa.film SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africa.film 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.film 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

africa.film

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: