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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

africancube.com

Leading Digital Media Agency Africa, Online News South Africa, African Business Blog, Latest Business News - Africancube.com

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

328 ms

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About Website

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Africancube.com is a leading digital media agency providing advisory services, news, and insights about business, finance, and technology in Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africancube.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africancube.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africancube.com

30 ms

africancube.com

56 ms

css

48 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

styles.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Africancube.com, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) belongs to the original domain Africancube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

901.7 kB

After Optimization

699.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africancube.com main page is 901.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 179.5 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 212.0 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. 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 179.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 133.1 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. Africancube images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 319.1 kB
  • After minification 319.1 kB
  • After compression 315.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 221.6 kB
  • After minification 221.4 kB
  • After compression 217.1 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. Africancube.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (85%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africancube. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africancube.com

africancube.com

30 ms

africancube.com

africancube.com

56 ms

css

css

48 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

22 ms

styles.css

styles.css

40 ms

ihover.css

ihover.css

33 ms

style.css

style.css

48 ms

all.css

all.css

39 ms

single-shortcode.css

single-shortcode.css

44 ms

css

css

48 ms

bootstrap-tooltip.css

bootstrap-tooltip.css

43 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

55 ms

sfsi-style.css

sfsi-style.css

50 ms

form-themes.css

form-themes.css

45 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

133 ms

portfolio.css

portfolio.css

55 ms

recipe.css

recipe.css

58 ms

review.css

review.css

64 ms

style.css

style.css

96 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

74 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

92 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

66 ms

bootstrap-tooltip.js

bootstrap-tooltip.js

152 ms

jq-sticky-anything.min.js

jq-sticky-anything.min.js

153 ms

advanced.min.js

advanced.min.js

155 ms

cfp.min.js

cfp.min.js

158 ms

base.min.js

base.min.js

154 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

55 ms

css

css

41 ms

index.js

index.js

154 ms

index.js

index.js

155 ms

jquery.rateyo.min.js

jquery.rateyo.min.js

155 ms

rating_recipe.js

rating_recipe.js

251 ms

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

jquery.easypiechart.min.js

251 ms

rating_review.js

rating_review.js

252 ms

stickThis.js

stickThis.js

253 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

252 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

modernizr.custom.min.js

253 ms

jquery.shuffle.min.js

jquery.shuffle.min.js

254 ms

random-shuffle-min.js

random-shuffle-min.js

253 ms

custom.js

custom.js

254 ms

sticky.js

sticky.js

256 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

241 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

229 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

224 ms

forms.js

forms.js

224 ms

240-x-650.png

240-x-650.png

72 ms

transparent_facebook.png

transparent_facebook.png

70 ms

transparent_twitter.png

transparent_twitter.png

69 ms

transparent_linkedin.png

transparent_linkedin.png

70 ms

transparent_instagram.png

transparent_instagram.png

68 ms

Didot%20Bold.ttf

Didot%20Bold.ttf

470 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

52 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

50 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

77 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

124 ms

71 ms

Accessibility Review

africancube.com accessibility score

95

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.

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

africancube.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africancube.com SEO score

92

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

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 Africancube.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 Africancube.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

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