Access marinesciences.uconn.edu. Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.985

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

marinesciences.uconn.edu

55 ms

marinesciences.uconn.edu

100 ms

papercite.css

40 ms

style.css

49 ms

social-wall.min.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Marinesciences.uconn.edu, 53% (72 requests) were made to Aurora.media.uconn.edu and 37% (51 requests) were made to Marinesciences.media.uconn.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (599 ms) relates to the external source Marinesciences.media.uconn.edu.

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Marinesciences.uconn.edu main page is 5.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

Original 153.4 kB
After minification 149.1 kB
After compression 24.4 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 129.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 259.8 kB

Original 5.0 MB
After minification 4.7 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. Marine Sciences Uconn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

Original 382.5 kB
After minification 381.2 kB
After compression 336.5 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 46.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

Original 191.7 kB
After minification 190.5 kB
After compression 137.7 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. Marinesciences.uconn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marine Sciences Uconn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.