Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

kemri.org

KEMRI

Page Load Speed

27.9 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

24.4 sec

Page Rendered

848 ms

kemri.org screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing KEMRI content for Kenya. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kemri.org

KEMRI is a State Corporation established in Kenya in 1979 and responsible for carrying out research in human health in Kenya.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kemri.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 25.3 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. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

kemri.org performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kemri.org

2645 ms

initiate.gif

1223 ms

include.php

1228 ms

default.css

564 ms

rokajaxsearch.css

565 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Kemri.org, 6% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) belongs to the original domain Kemri.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 957.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Kemri.org main page is 4.2 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. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 124.1 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 93.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 640.5 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Obviously, KEMRI needs image optimization as it can save up to 640.5 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

-64%

Potential reduce by 147.4 kB

  • Original 230.5 kB
  • After minification 224.1 kB
  • After compression 83.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 147.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 76.3 kB

  • Original 94.7 kB
  • After minification 86.3 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. Kemri.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (42%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

69

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KEMRI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kemri.org accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

kemri.org SEO score

76

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 Kemri.org 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 Kemri.org 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 KEMRI. 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: