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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

charlotte.edu

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | UNC Charlotte

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

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UNC Charlotte, North Carolina's urban research university, fuels American innovation in everything from resilient and sustainable architecture and environmental systems, epidemiological modeling ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charlotte.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 2.8 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

charlotte.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.charlotte.edu

296 ms

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19 ms

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37 ms

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69 ms

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54 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Charlotte.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (617 ms) belongs to the original domain Charlotte.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

8.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Charlotte.edu main page is 8.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 78.9 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 64.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 170.9 kB

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Charlotte images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 172.3 kB
  • After minification 172.0 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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 35.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 415 B

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Charlotte.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (31%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Charlotte. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

charlotte.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

charlotte.edu best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

charlotte.edu SEO score

82

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 Charlotte.edu 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 Charlotte.edu 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 data is detected on the main page of Charlotte. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: