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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ogr.knust.edu.gh

Home - Office of Grants and Research

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

607 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

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The Office of Grants & Research (OGR) exists to serve as a centralized university office for externally funded research.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ogr.knust.edu.gh page load time and found that the first response time was 607 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ogr.knust.edu.gh performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ogr.knust.edu.gh

607 ms

default.css

188 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

313 ms

scripts.js

189 ms

jquery.cookie.js

131 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Ogr.knust.edu.gh, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ogr.knust.edu.gh.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.9 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

911.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ogr.knust.edu.gh main page is 1.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 21.7 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 17.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 243.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 832.2 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, Ogr Knust needs image optimization as it can save up to 243.1 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 101.7 kB

  • Original 166.2 kB
  • After minification 146.0 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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 101.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Ogr.knust.edu.gh needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (20%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ogr 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ogr.knust.edu.gh

ogr.knust.edu.gh

607 ms

default.css

default.css

188 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

313 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

189 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

131 ms

jquery.treeview.js

jquery.treeview.js

132 ms

jquery.totemticker.js

jquery.totemticker.js

180 ms

general.js

general.js

253 ms

ogr.css

ogr.css

143 ms

html-bg.png

html-bg.png

80 ms

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311 ms

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spotlight151.jpg

373 ms

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374 ms

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382 ms

spotlight150.jpg

spotlight150.jpg

429 ms

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620 ms

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spotlight147.png

899 ms

spotlight92.jpg

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677 ms

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637 ms

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645 ms

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648 ms

ogrtstm51.jpg

ogrtstm51.jpg

893 ms

ogrtstm48.jpg

ogrtstm48.jpg

996 ms

img2014820_1847.jpg

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958 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

13 ms

search-magnifier.png

search-magnifier.png

1106 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

snhead-bg.png

snhead-bg.png

949 ms

spot-bg.png

spot-bg.png

1068 ms

silde-nav.png

silde-nav.png

1111 ms

print.css

print.css

376 ms

Accessibility Review

ogr.knust.edu.gh accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ogr.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

SEO Factors

ogr.knust.edu.gh SEO score

85

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

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 Ogr.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 Ogr.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

ogr.knust.edu.gh

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