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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

sage.africa-newsroom.com

APO Group - Africa Newsroom / Press Releases Related to Africa

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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About Website

Visit sage.africa-newsroom.com now to see the best up-to-date Sage Africa Newsroom content for Nigeria and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sage.africa-newsroom.com

Africa Newsroom offers the latest Africa-related news releases & official statements issued by companies, governments, international organizations, NGOs & the UN.

Visit sage.africa-newsroom.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Sage.africa-newsroom.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sage.africa-newsroom.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.497

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sage.africa-newsroom.com

1063 ms

33

337 ms

5e2aa84565f0f583ff16b39056450a35.css

10 ms

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8 ms

b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Sage.africa-newsroom.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sage.africa-newsroom.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.9 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

631.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Sage.africa-newsroom.com main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 966.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 158.4 kB

  • Original 182.1 kB
  • After minification 161.0 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 21.1 kB, which is 12% 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 158.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 38.2 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. Obviously, Sage Africa Newsroom needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 396.8 kB

  • Original 966.0 kB
  • After minification 966.0 kB
  • After compression 569.2 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 396.8 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (30%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sage Africa Newsroom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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sage.africa-newsroom.com

1063 ms

33

33

337 ms

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5e2aa84565f0f583ff16b39056450a35.css

10 ms

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d159d3c255cc2f4cec5da3c2438b4ff0.js

8 ms

b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

b370102605a4744ebb49253158381e92.css

9 ms

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d2325dd164f27f9c0ac871910cec6cd2.js

8 ms

in.js

in.js

34 ms

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4929b72f0f3a2fbcbb20f88c2981ffc4.js

13 ms

api.js

api.js

36 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

120 ms

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427 ms

home-icon.png

home-icon.png

64 ms

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471 ms

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1087 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

134 ms

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420 ms

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419 ms

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256 ms

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435 ms

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401 ms

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448 ms

social-media.png

social-media.png

678 ms

subscribe_bg_shadow.png

subscribe_bg_shadow.png

691 ms

rss-feeds.png

rss-feeds.png

420 ms

media-kit.png

media-kit.png

546 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

220 ms

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l_invert_comma.png

733 ms

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835 ms

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70 ms

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655 ms

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468 ms

calander.png

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765 ms

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search-icon.png

481 ms

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sdk.js

41 ms

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profile

1 ms

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134 ms

Accessibility Review

sage.africa-newsroom.com accessibility score

82

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sage.africa-newsroom.com best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sage.africa-newsroom.com SEO score

81

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sage.africa-newsroom.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 Sage.africa-newsroom.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.

Social Sharing Optimization

sage.africa-newsroom.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sage Africa Newsroom. 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: