Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

isu.ac.ug

Home - International School of Uganda

Page Load Speed

75.7 sec in total

First Response

874 ms

Resources Loaded

54.8 sec

Page Rendered

20 sec

isu.ac.ug screenshot

About Website

Visit isu.ac.ug now to see the best up-to-date Isu content for Uganda and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about isu.ac.ug

The International School of Uganda (ISU) is a not-for-profit, parent-owned co-educational day school; offering three full International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Isu.ac.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 874 ms and then it took 74.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

isu.ac.ug performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

isu.ac.ug

874 ms

www.isu.ac.ug

641 ms

application-4b1ce5951e72e0bd8093de1b69f70ca79e8c2daccfb325e7f34fb4a19baa2b03.css

1171 ms

styles.cfm

118 ms

main.css

608 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Isu.ac.ug, 13% (9 requests) were made to Static.finalsite.net and 13% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.5 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (43%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Isu.ac.ug main page is 6.5 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. 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 63.4 kB

  • Original 81.3 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 63.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 91.6 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Isu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 MB
  • After compression 710.6 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 1.5 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 688.1 kB
  • After compression 122.2 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. Isu.ac.ug needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (37%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Isu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

isu.ac.ug accessibility score

67

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

[role] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

SEO Factors

isu.ac.ug SEO score

85

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

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 Isu.ac.ug 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 Isu.ac.ug 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 Isu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: