Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

africatechweek.co.za

HOME | Africa Tech Week

Page Load Speed

240 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

91 ms

Page Rendered

59 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africatechweek.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 150 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africatechweek.co.za performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africatechweek.co.za

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Africatechweek.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (90 ms) belongs to the original domain Africatechweek.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (24%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Africatechweek.co.za main page is 5.7 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 23 B

  • Original 177 B
  • After minification 177 B
  • After compression 154 B

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 23 B or 13% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB

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 Tech Week images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 133.7 kB

  • Original 244.3 kB
  • After minification 243.3 kB
  • After compression 110.6 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 133.7 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 180.4 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. Africatechweek.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

africatechweek.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

africatechweek.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

africatechweek.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africatechweek.co.za 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 Africatechweek.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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