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africanexplorations.com

Tailor Made Luxury Safaris and Vacations by The Explorations Company

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

440 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanexplorations.com page load time and found that the first response time was 440 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africanexplorations.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

africanexplorations.com

440 ms

bootstrap.min.css

33 ms

fonts.css

203 ms

css

46 ms

Core%20Layout

297 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Africanexplorations.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (786 ms) belongs to the original domain Africanexplorations.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.7 kB (45%)

Content Size

875.6 kB

After Optimization

479.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Africanexplorations.com main page is 875.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 379.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 3.6 kB, which is 16% 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 17.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 379.4 kB
  • After minification 346.7 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. African Explorations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 249.5 kB

  • Original 358.7 kB
  • After minification 347.7 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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 249.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 115.4 kB
  • After minification 115.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Africanexplorations.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (35%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of African Explorations. 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.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africanexplorations.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 Africanexplorations.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 African Explorations. 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: