Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

ucb.com

Home | UCB

Page Load Speed

22.6 sec in total

First Response

350 ms

Resources Loaded

22 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucb.com page load time and found that the first response time was 350 ms and then it took 22.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ucb.com performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.312

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucb.com

350 ms

www.ucb.com

743 ms

178 ms

698 ms

dcs_tag_ucbgroup.js

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Ucb.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Wtpix.ucb-group.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

918.9 kB

After Optimization

827.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Ucb.com main page is 918.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 798.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 67.3 kB

  • Original 79.9 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 67.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.9 kB

  • Original 798.9 kB
  • After minification 790.0 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. UCB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 37.6 kB
  • After compression 24.7 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 15.4 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UCB. 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.

Accessibility Review

ucb.com accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

ucb.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ucb.com SEO score

64

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

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 doesn't use 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 Ucb.com 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 Ucb.com 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 UCB. 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: