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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

athletics.africa

AthleticsAfrica – Amplifying the voices of African athletes

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

659 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

athletics.africa screenshot

About Website

Welcome to athletics.africa homepage info - get ready to check Athletics best content right away, or after learning these important things about athletics.africa

Latest athletics and marathon news, images, videos, live events information and track and field results from the heart of Africa on mobile and web.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Athletics.africa page load time and found that the first response time was 659 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

athletics.africa performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value19,060 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.athletics.africa

659 ms

matomo.js

850 ms

style.min.css

70 ms

styles.css

114 ms

jquery-ui.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Athletics.africa, 18% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Athletics.africa.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Athletics.africa main page is 6.6 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 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 155.7 kB

  • Original 186.9 kB
  • After minification 179.7 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. 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 155.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 435.2 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Athletics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 52 B

  • Original 601 B
  • After minification 601 B
  • After compression 549 B

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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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. Athletics.africa has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (47%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Athletics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

athletics.africa accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

athletics.africa 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

athletics.africa SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Athletics.africa 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 Athletics.africa 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

athletics.africa

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Athletics. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: