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africadatacenter.com

Home • Teraco Data Environments

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

809 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africadatacenter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 809 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africadatacenter.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

africadatacenter.com

809 ms

tomliefgreen.com

61 ms

www.tomliefgreen.com

89 ms

js15.js

7 ms

combined_all.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Africadatacenter.com, 32% (15 requests) were made to Tomliefgreen.com and 19% (9 requests) were made to D1o1wlqwda3y1b.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (809 ms) belongs to the original domain Africadatacenter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.6 kB (63%)

Content Size

518.2 kB

After Optimization

193.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Africadatacenter.com main page is 518.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 206.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 52.2 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 9.4 kB, which is 18% 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 43.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 76.5 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 Data Center images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 101.6 kB

  • Original 176.1 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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 101.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 172.8 kB

  • Original 206.9 kB
  • After minification 200.8 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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. Africadatacenter.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (49%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Data Center. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

africadatacenter.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africadatacenter.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Africadatacenter.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 Data Center. 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: