Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

idc.co.zm

Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Zambia Limited – Strengthening Zambia’s industrial base and job creation.

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

880 ms

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

372 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idc.co.zm page load time and found that the first response time was 880 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

idc.co.zm performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idc.co.zm

880 ms

www.idc.co.zm

3776 ms

admin_icon.css

1047 ms

style.min.css

1585 ms

dashicons.min.css

1331 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Idc.co.zm, 15% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Idc.co.zm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (79%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

610.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Idc.co.zm main page is 2.9 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. CSS take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 172.1 kB

  • Original 208.6 kB
  • After minification 205.5 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 172.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 562 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.4 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, IDC needs image optimization as it can save up to 562 B or 29% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 887.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 357.8 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 887.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 214.6 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. Idc.co.zm needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (88%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IDC. 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 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

idc.co.zm accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

idc.co.zm 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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

idc.co.zm SEO score

91

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

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 Idc.co.zm 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 Idc.co.zm 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 IDC. 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: