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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

dkut.ac.ke

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology - Dedan Kimathi University of Technology

Page Load Speed

28 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

26.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Visit dkut.ac.ke now to see the best up-to-date Dkut Ac content for Kenya and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dkut.ac.ke

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (DeKUT) is a Chartered Public University that has two campuses: the Main Campus in Nyeri and Nairobi Campus along Loita street.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dkut.ac.ke page load time and found that the first response time was 668 ms and then it took 27.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% 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

dkut.ac.ke performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value70.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dkut.ac.ke

668 ms

www.dkut.ac.ke

2324 ms

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32 ms

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Our browser made a total of 177 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (121 requests) were addressed to the original Dkut.ac.ke, 10% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Dekutchannel.dkut.ac.ke.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 187.3 kB (45%)

Content Size

416.4 kB

After Optimization

229.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Dkut.ac.ke main page is 416.4 kB. 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. HTML takes 198.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 163.0 kB

  • Original 198.9 kB
  • After minification 189.0 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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 163.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3 B

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.6 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. Dkut Ac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 198.8 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 174.6 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 24.3 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 100 (63%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dkut Ac. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

dkut.ac.ke accessibility score

85

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dkut.ac.ke 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

dkut.ac.ke SEO score

90

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 Dkut.ac.ke 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 Dkut.ac.ke 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

dkut.ac.ke

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