Access uscupstate.edu. USC Upstate | University of South Carolina Upstate

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.682

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

uscupstate.edu

236 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

40 ms

reset.css

44 ms

typography.css

50 ms

core.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Uscupstate.edu, 18% (11 requests) were made to Feeds.feedburner.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (236 ms) belongs to the original domain Uscupstate.edu.

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Uscupstate.edu main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

Original 41.1 kB
After minification 34.3 kB
After compression 9.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.8 kB, which is 17% 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 31.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

Original 1.3 MB
After minification 1.3 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. USC Upstate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 105.6 kB

Original 162.6 kB
After minification 139.6 kB
After compression 57.0 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 105.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

Original 45.2 kB
After minification 33.7 kB
After compression 9.9 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. Uscupstate.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of USC Upstate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

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

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

ISO-8859-2

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uscupstate.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Uscupstate.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-2. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

uscupstate.edu

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

USC Upstate | University of South Carolina Upstate

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

uscupstate.edu

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

reset.css

typography.css

core.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

uscupstate.edu

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owl.carousel.js

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