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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

talkafricana.com

African Culture, History and Rankings - TalkAfricana

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

801 ms

talkafricana.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Talk Africana content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about talkafricana.com

Talkafricana is a Pan African site, aimed at helping Africans and the whole world in general get relevant and valuable African contents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Talkafricana.com page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

talkafricana.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value65,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.409

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value81.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

talkafricana.com

225 ms

talkafricana.com

541 ms

style.min.css

162 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

167 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Talkafricana.com, 31% (21 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 16% (11 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 496.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Talkafricana.com main page is 2.3 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 406.9 kB

  • Original 482.6 kB
  • After minification 444.4 kB
  • After compression 75.8 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 406.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 248 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Talk Africana images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 121.3 kB
  • After minification 121.3 kB
  • After compression 119.5 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

-40%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 217.9 kB
  • After minification 217.8 kB
  • After compression 129.9 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. Talkafricana.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.1 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (50%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Talk Africana. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

talkafricana.com

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225 ms

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541 ms

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162 ms

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167 ms

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165 ms

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155 ms

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184 ms

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96 ms

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108 ms

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165 ms

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188 ms

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334 ms

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236 ms

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Accessibility Review

talkafricana.com accessibility score

85

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

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

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

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

talkafricana.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

talkafricana.com SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Talkafricana.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 Talkafricana.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

talkafricana.com

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