Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

ig.utexas.edu

UT Institute for Geophysics – Understanding the Earth and other planets to solve key problems that affect us all. The world needs geophysicists!

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

About Website

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The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) is a world leader in expeditionary-scale geophysical research on land, at sea, and in the air.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ig.utexas.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ig.utexas.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ig.utexas.edu

1224 ms

js

23 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

111 ms

style.css

147 ms

style.min.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Ig.utexas.edu, 24% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ig.utexas.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 756.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

7.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Ig.utexas.edu main page is 8.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 102.1 kB

  • Original 129.7 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 102.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 230.7 kB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 7.4 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. Ig UT Exas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 169.4 kB

  • Original 246.0 kB
  • After minification 231.1 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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 169.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 254.2 kB

  • Original 331.9 kB
  • After minification 292.6 kB
  • After compression 77.7 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. Ig.utexas.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 254.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (66%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ig UT Exas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ig.utexas.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

ig.utexas.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ig.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 Ig.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 Ig.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 Ig UT Exas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: