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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

nira.go.ug

NIRA | National Identification & Registration Authority

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

70 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nira.go.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 8.6 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

nira.go.ug performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nira.go.ug

1045 ms

www.nira.go.ug

1125 ms

skitter.css

223 ms

styles.d64954c3c0d1b014b60e.css

1335 ms

runtime.29ae098347b0e02061a5.js

654 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Nira.go.ug and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Nira.go.ug.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 258.1 kB (76%)

Content Size

338.4 kB

After Optimization

80.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nira.go.ug main page is 338.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 170.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 10.3 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 8.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 116.2 kB

  • Original 170.9 kB
  • After minification 170.9 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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 116.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 157.3 kB
  • After minification 157.1 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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. Nira.go.ug needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NIRA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

nira.go.ug accessibility score

78

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

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

nira.go.ug best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nira.go.ug SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Nira.go.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 Nira.go.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

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