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african-experiences.com

African-experiences.com

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

313 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed African-experiences.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

african-experiences.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

african-experiences.com

32 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

74 ms

show_ads.js

9 ms

ga.js

80 ms

ca-pub-2694991094486537.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original African-experiences.com, 11% (8 requests) were made to Allmobilescompared.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Safarinow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of African-experiences.com main page is 1.7 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.7 kB

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 46.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 89.6 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. African Experiences images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 57.5 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 105.4 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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 57.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (19%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Experiences. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

african-experiences.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise African-experiences.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that African-experiences.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of African Experiences. 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: