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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

knust.edu.gh

Home | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

701 ms

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knust.edu.gh page load time and found that the first response time was 701 ms and then it took 8.3 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

knust.edu.gh performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,380 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knust.edu.gh

701 ms

1842 ms

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389 ms

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41 ms

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366 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Knust.edu.gh, 13% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Knust.edu.gh.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 532.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

9.0 MB

After Optimization

8.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Knust.edu.gh main page is 9.0 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. 75% 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 8.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 81.9 kB

  • Original 96.3 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.4 kB, which is 30% 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 81.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 359.9 kB

  • Original 8.3 MB
  • After minification 7.9 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. Knust images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 487.6 kB
  • After minification 487.3 kB
  • After compression 433.3 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 54.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 127.1 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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. Knust.edu.gh needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.0 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (44%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knust. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

knust.edu.gh

knust.edu.gh

701 ms

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389 ms

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Accessibility Review

knust.edu.gh accessibility score

83

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

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best Practices

knust.edu.gh 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

knust.edu.gh SEO score

76

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

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 Knust.edu.gh 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 Knust.edu.gh 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

knust.edu.gh

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