Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

africaresearch.org

Home - Africa Forum - Africa Research - News View weekly

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

africaresearch.org screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africaresearch.org page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africaresearch.org performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.453

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africaresearch.org

1202 ms

autoptimize_a930eae99ff1494f246bcf4f7106209f.css

236 ms

autoptimize_single_1a0063860ac3d64026a0d3d3d8e3b9a1.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

89 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Africaresearch.org, 48% (25 requests) were made to and 4% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Africaresearch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 592.1 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

836.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Africaresearch.org main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 663.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 279.4 kB

  • Original 340.5 kB
  • After minification 340.4 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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 279.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 270.6 kB
  • After minification 270.6 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. Africa Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 312.3 kB

  • Original 663.4 kB
  • After minification 663.4 kB
  • After compression 351.1 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 312.3 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 439 B

  • Original 154.0 kB
  • After minification 154.0 kB
  • After compression 153.5 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. Africaresearch.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (76%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

africaresearch.org accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africaresearch.org best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

africaresearch.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Africaresearch.org 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 Africaresearch.org 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 Africa Research. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: