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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

africapulse.com

AfricaPulse.com | News and Media for Africa

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

662 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africapulse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 662 ms and then it took 1.3 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

africapulse.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africapulse.com

662 ms

style.css

21 ms

style.min.css

39 ms

style.css

25 ms

africapulse-logo-header.gif

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Africapulse.com, 10% (1 request) were made to Googletagservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (662 ms) belongs to the original domain Africapulse.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.8 kB (61%)

Content Size

154.4 kB

After Optimization

59.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africapulse.com main page is 154.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 89.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. 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 34.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 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 Pulse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 89.7 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 59.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 655 B

  • Original 16.6 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. Africapulse.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Pulse. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.africapulse.com

www.africapulse.com

662 ms

style.css

style.css

21 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

39 ms

style.css

style.css

25 ms

africapulse-logo-header.gif

africapulse-logo-header.gif

46 ms

rss.png

rss.png

11 ms

background.png

background.png

25 ms

line.png

line.png

25 ms

sidebar.png

sidebar.png

19 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

51 ms

Accessibility Review

africapulse.com accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

africapulse.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

africapulse.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Africapulse.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 Africapulse.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

africapulse.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Africa Pulse. 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: