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Visit allafrica.comWe analyzed Allafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.
allafrica.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 174 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Allafrica.com, 7% (13 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (385 ms) belongs to the original domain Allafrica.com.
Page size can be reduced by 963.8 kB (12%)
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In fact, the total size of Allafrica.com main page is 8.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 249.9 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 54.3 kB, which is 19% 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 249.9 kB or 88% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 76.3 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. AllAfrica images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 460.9 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 460.9 kB or 56% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 176.7 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. Allafrica.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.7 kB or 83% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (33%)
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The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of AllAfrica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.
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allafrica.com accessibility score
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.
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[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles
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.
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Form elements do not have associated labels
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
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Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
allafrica.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
allafrica.com SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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Issue
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Allafrica.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 Allafrica.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.
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