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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

finaid.utexas.edu

About - Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid - The University of Texas at Austin

Page Load Speed

818 ms in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

501 ms

Page Rendered

304 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finaid.utexas.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 805 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finaid.utexas.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

56/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finaid.utexas.edu

13 ms

finaid.utexas.edu

60 ms

all.css

68 ms

style.min.css

17 ms

widget-options.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Finaid.utexas.edu, 7% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 251.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

714.5 kB

After Optimization

463.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Finaid.utexas.edu main page is 714.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 315.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 128.2 kB

  • Original 157.7 kB
  • After minification 146.6 kB
  • After compression 29.5 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 128.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 315.5 kB
  • After minification 280.2 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. Obviously, Fin Aid U Texas needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 126.6 kB
  • After minification 126.6 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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 72.6 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 114.7 kB
  • After minification 114.7 kB
  • After compression 99.2 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.utexas.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fin Aid U Texas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

finaid.utexas.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

finaid.utexas.edu 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

finaid.utexas.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Finaid.utexas.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.utexas.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 Fin Aid U Texas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: