Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ilcafrica.com

Solutions in Africa for Africa, Research and Evaluation Company Ghana - ILC Africa

Page Load Speed

14.4 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

12.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

ilcafrica.com screenshot

About Website

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ILC Africa is a thriving network of local African offices driving development solutions in Africa for Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ilcafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 14.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ilcafrica.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ilcafrica.com

75 ms

ilcafrica.com

665 ms

www.ilcafrica.com

6 ms

www.ilcafrica.com

138 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (150 requests) were addressed to the original Ilcafrica.com, 6% (12 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 5% (11 requests) were made to I2.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ilcafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ilcafrica.com main page is 1.5 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. 75% 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 881.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 104.1 kB

  • Original 124.6 kB
  • After minification 122.5 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 104.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 70.8 kB

  • Original 881.1 kB
  • After minification 810.2 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. ILC Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 229.3 kB
  • After minification 229.3 kB
  • After compression 218.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 276.3 kB
  • After minification 276.3 kB
  • After compression 255.7 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. Ilcafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 99 (75%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ILC Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ilcafrica.com accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ilcafrica.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ilcafrica.com SEO score

91

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

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 Ilcafrica.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 Ilcafrica.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

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