Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

dhl.co.ug

DHL Home - Global Logistics and International Shipping Uganda

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

543 ms

dhl.co.ug screenshot

About Website

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

DHL is the global leader in the logistics industry. Specializing in international shipping, courier services and transportation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dhl.co.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dhl.co.ug performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.html

352 ms

bundle.270961fa78e1058aba882c197a383b7b.css

104 ms

clientlib-core.min.css

46 ms

clientlib-core.min.js

59 ms

launch-ENa2e710b79eef40758cbb936003b8b231.min.js

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Dhl.co.ug, 7% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S2.go-mpulse.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Dhl.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (64%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

617.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Dhl.co.ug main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 174.4 kB

  • Original 190.7 kB
  • After minification 129.9 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 60.7 kB, which is 32% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 174.4 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 232.7 kB
  • After minification 225.5 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. DHL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 844.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 375.5 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 844.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-99%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 87.8 kB
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 634 B

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. Dhl.co.ug needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.2 kB or 99% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (19%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DHL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dhl.co.ug accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

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

dhl.co.ug best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

dhl.co.ug SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Dhl.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 Dhl.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

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