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africanramblings.com

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Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanramblings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.africanramblings.com

1337 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

377 ms

button.css

327 ms

css

66 ms

genericons.css

468 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Africanramblings.com, 32% (16 requests) were made to Distilled.net and 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Distilled.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

807.1 kB

After Optimization

654.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Africanramblings.com main page is 807.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 622.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. 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 35.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 622.8 kB
  • After minification 609.6 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. Africanramblings images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 103.8 kB

  • Original 131.7 kB
  • After minification 110.5 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Africanramblings.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (24%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africanramblings. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africanramblings.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 Africanramblings.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 data is detected on the main page of Africanramblings. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: