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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

kiu.ac.ug

.:: Home | Kampala International University, Uganda

Page Load Speed

25.6 sec in total

First Response

525 ms

Resources Loaded

24.6 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kiu.ac.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 525 ms and then it took 25.1 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

kiu.ac.ug performance score

6

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,150 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.482

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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525 ms

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40 ms

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Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Kiu.ac.ug, 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Kiu.ac.ug.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 552.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kiu.ac.ug main page is 5.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 136.2 kB

  • Original 157.8 kB
  • After minification 157.1 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 136.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Kiu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 242.9 kB

  • Original 594.7 kB
  • After minification 594.7 kB
  • After compression 351.8 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 242.9 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 270.8 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 251.2 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. Kiu.ac.ug has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (57%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kiu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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Accessibility Review

kiu.ac.ug accessibility score

86

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

kiu.ac.ug best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kiu.ac.ug SEO score

87

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

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 Kiu.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 Kiu.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

kiu.ac.ug

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kiu. 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: