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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

nilebasin.org

Welcome to Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

712 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

282 ms

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About Website

Welcome to nilebasin.org homepage info - get ready to check Nile Basin best content for Rwanda right away, or after learning these important things about nilebasin.org

The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) is an intergovernmental partnership of 10 Nile Basin countries, namely Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, The Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. E...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nilebasin.org page load time and found that the first response time was 712 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nilebasin.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nilebasin.org

712 ms

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Our browser made a total of 172 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Nilebasin.org, 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (17%)

Content Size

19.2 MB

After Optimization

16.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nilebasin.org main page is 19.2 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. 80% 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 18.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 94.6 kB

  • Original 117.0 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 94.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 18.1 MB
  • After minification 15.7 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, Nile Basin needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.4 MB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 421.6 kB

  • Original 677.1 kB
  • After minification 626.2 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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 421.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 263.8 kB

  • Original 322.1 kB
  • After minification 267.0 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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. Nilebasin.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 263.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 92 (56%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

72

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nile Basin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

nilebasin.org accessibility score

50

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

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.

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

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.

Best Practices

nilebasin.org best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

nilebasin.org 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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Nilebasin.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 Nilebasin.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

nilebasin.org

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