Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

medicine.ku.ac.ke

Kenyatta University - School of Medicine

Page Load Speed

22.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

20.3 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

Welcome to medicine.ku.ac.ke homepage info - get ready to check Medicine Ku Ac best content right away, or after learning these important things about medicine.ku.ac.ke

The School of medicine was established in 2004 as a Centre of excellence in health research, capacity building and product development. It has rapidly developed over time and now has eleven department...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Medicine.ku.ac.ke page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 20.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

medicine.ku.ac.ke performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.234

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

medicine.ku.ac.ke

1965 ms

modal.css

497 ms

style.css

494 ms

bootstrap-frontend.min.css

495 ms

system.css

500 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Medicine.ku.ac.ke and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Medicine.ku.ac.ke.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 545.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

896.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Medicine.ku.ac.ke main page is 1.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 742.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 16.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 742.9 kB
  • After minification 693.4 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. Medicine Ku Ac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 419.9 kB

  • Original 604.5 kB
  • After minification 587.3 kB
  • After compression 184.6 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 419.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.1 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Medicine.ku.ac.ke needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 60.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (59%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Medicine Ku Ac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

medicine.ku.ac.ke accessibility score

80

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.

Best Practices

medicine.ku.ac.ke 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

medicine.ku.ac.ke SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Medicine.ku.ac.ke 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 Medicine.ku.ac.ke 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 Medicine Ku Ac. 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: