Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 60

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

nec.gov.rw

Home

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

350 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nec.gov.rw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nec.gov.rw performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.349

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1148 ms

nivo.css

479 ms

menu.css

481 ms

stylesheet_c67a652645.css

494 ms

jquery.min.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Nec.gov.rw, 5% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Nec.gov.rw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.6 kB (50%)

Content Size

970.3 kB

After Optimization

488.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Nec.gov.rw main page is 970.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 359.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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 2.9 kB, which is 12% 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 18.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 353.2 kB
  • After minification 345.6 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. Nec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 155.6 kB

  • Original 234.7 kB
  • After minification 234.4 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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 155.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 300.1 kB

  • Original 359.2 kB
  • After minification 327.7 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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. Nec.gov.rw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 300.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nec. 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 from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nec.gov.rw accessibility score

46

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

nec.gov.rw 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

nec.gov.rw SEO score

60

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    RW

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nec.gov.rw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Kinyarwanda is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Nec.gov.rw 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 Nec. 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: