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uiuc.edu

Home | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

492 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uiuc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uiuc.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

uiuc.edu

280 ms

illinois.edu

466 ms

main.css

1888 ms

font-awesome.min.css

5 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Uiuc.edu, 67% (62 requests) were made to Illinois.edu and 12% (11 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Illinois.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 933.1 kB (20%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Uiuc.edu main page is 4.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 147.3 kB

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 148.2 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 20.0 kB, which is 12% 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 147.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 133.9 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Uiuc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 355.3 kB

  • Original 523.3 kB
  • After minification 495.5 kB
  • After compression 168.0 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 355.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 296.5 kB

  • Original 354.7 kB
  • After minification 348.9 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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. Uiuc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (47%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uiuc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

uiuc.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uiuc.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Uiuc.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 Uiuc. 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: