Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

finaid.uccs.edu

Financial Aid and Student Employment

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finaid.uccs.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finaid.uccs.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finaid.uccs.edu

74 ms

finaid.uccs.edu

53 ms

js

66 ms

css_hwIs9_NPLr5DcuALBPuuYvo-bke6AfFXelWKjbfRDuA.css

5 ms

css_05v5yZJPofrSSijkuROSHjUKFfsH_UpjG5iAdYaoE9g.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Finaid.uccs.edu, 36% (26 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Finaid.uccs.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 520.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Finaid.uccs.edu main page is 3.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 132.2 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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 25.7 kB, which is 19% 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 103.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 166 B

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 278.3 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. Fin Aid Uccs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 315.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 2.2 MB

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 315.4 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 101.9 kB

  • Original 157.4 kB
  • After minification 155.9 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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. Finaid.uccs.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 101.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (76%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fin Aid Uccs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

finaid.uccs.edu accessibility score

91

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

finaid.uccs.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

finaid.uccs.edu SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Finaid.uccs.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 Finaid.uccs.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 description is not detected on the main page of Fin Aid Uccs. 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: