Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

aps.sn

ACTUALITE - Agence de presse sénégalaise - APS

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

596 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aps.sn page load time and found that the first response time was 596 ms and then it took 6.3 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

aps.sn performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aps.sn

596 ms

spip.css

161 ms

jquery.ui.core.css

159 ms

jquery.ui.slider.css

164 ms

jquery.ui.theme.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Aps.sn, 9% (18 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Aps.sn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (32%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Aps.sn main page is 9.0 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. 85% 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 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 125.5 kB

  • Original 145.7 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 37.2 kB, which is 26% 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 125.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 460.7 kB

  • Original 5.6 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. APS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 828.3 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 1.9 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 411.5 kB

  • Original 484.8 kB
  • After minification 433.7 kB
  • After compression 73.3 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. Aps.sn needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 411.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 113 (58%)

Requests Now

195

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 195 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of APS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aps.sn accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

aps.sn best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aps.sn SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aps.sn can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Aps.sn 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 description is not detected on the main page of APS. 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: