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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

nic.co.ug

Welcome to NIC Holdings Limited. For General Insurance & Life Assurance Policies

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

502 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

nic.co.ug screenshot

About Website

Visit nic.co.ug now to see the best up-to-date NIC content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nic.co.ug

We provide high value General Insurance and Life Assurance policies from more than 50 Branches, Area Offices & Agency Offices across Uganda

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nic.co.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 502 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nic.co.ug performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.032

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nic.co.ug

502 ms

www.nic.co.ug

843 ms

js

81 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

185 ms

style.min.css

293 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Nic.co.ug, 10% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Nic.co.ug.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 832.2 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nic.co.ug main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 140.0 kB

  • Original 191.8 kB
  • After minification 187.1 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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 140.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 637.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 419.2 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. Obviously, NIC needs image optimization as it can save up to 637.8 kB or 60% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 506.8 kB
  • After minification 506.8 kB
  • After compression 472.7 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 319.2 kB
  • After compression 299.0 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. Nic.co.ug has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 104 (87%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NIC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nic.co.ug

nic.co.ug

502 ms

www.nic.co.ug

www.nic.co.ug

843 ms

js

js

81 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

185 ms

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293 ms

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324 ms

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43 ms

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327 ms

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320 ms

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332 ms

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397 ms

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425 ms

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428 ms

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427 ms

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438 ms

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442 ms

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501 ms

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528 ms

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531 ms

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534 ms

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656 ms

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550 ms

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606 ms

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35 ms

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632 ms

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638 ms

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638 ms

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66 ms

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662 ms

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712 ms

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740 ms

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747 ms

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749 ms

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763 ms

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767 ms

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823 ms

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848 ms

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847 ms

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962 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

871 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

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65 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

17 ms

skin-custom.css

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918 ms

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751 ms

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frontend-style.css

663 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

749 ms

addtoany.min.css

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669 ms

www.nic.co.ug

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1114 ms

jquery.js

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837 ms

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763 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

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700 ms

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676 ms

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750 ms

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front.js

750 ms

chosen.jquery.min.js

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765 ms

collapse.js

collapse.js

769 ms

simple-banner.js

simple-banner.js

773 ms

megamenu.js

megamenu.js

750 ms

frontend-functions.js

frontend-functions.js

751 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

773 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

773 ms

spin.min.js

spin.min.js

772 ms

spin.jquery.js

spin.jquery.js

750 ms

jquery.tooltipster.min.js

jquery.tooltipster.min.js

748 ms

functions.js

functions.js

779 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

771 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

887 ms

wpa.js

wpa.js

899 ms

sb-instagram.min.js

sb-instagram.min.js

866 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

952 ms

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jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

857 ms

revolution.extension.actions.min.js

revolution.extension.actions.min.js

848 ms

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845 ms

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872 ms

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854 ms

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853 ms

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832 ms

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773 ms

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revolution.extension.slideanims.min.js

835 ms

revolution.extension.video.min.js

revolution.extension.video.min.js

800 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

805 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

772 ms

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695 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

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705 ms

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functions.js

796 ms

qlwcdc.min.js

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791 ms

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bootstrap.min.js

728 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

728 ms

custom.js

custom.js

731 ms

wp-embed.min.js

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700 ms

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786 ms

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140 ms

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png-logo.png

494 ms

Website-Banner.png

Website-Banner.png

943 ms

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876 ms

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755 ms

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nic-general-home.jpg

644 ms

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644 ms

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850 ms

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750 ms

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735 ms

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838 ms

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852 ms

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22 ms

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61 ms

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144 ms

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1666 ms

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331 ms

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revolution.extension.navigation.min.js

335 ms

revolution.extension.parallax.min.js

revolution.extension.parallax.min.js

349 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

106 ms

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twk-arr-find-polyfill.js

65 ms

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twk-object-values-polyfill.js

137 ms

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twk-event-polyfill.js

62 ms

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139 ms

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140 ms

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twk-promise-polyfill.js

68 ms

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84 ms

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80 ms

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85 ms

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93 ms

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twk-runtime.js

100 ms

twk-app.js

twk-app.js

99 ms

Accessibility Review

nic.co.ug accessibility score

91

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

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

nic.co.ug 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nic.co.ug SEO score

84

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

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 Nic.co.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 Nic.co.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

nic.co.ug

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