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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

brand.colorado.edu

Brand and Messaging | University of Colorado Boulder

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

959 ms

Page Rendered

167 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brand.colorado.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brand.colorado.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brand.colorado.edu

197 ms

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87 ms

84 ms

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57 ms

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78 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brand.colorado.edu, 76% (34 requests) were made to Colorado.edu and 16% (7 requests) were made to Fast.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (240 ms) relates to the external source Colorado.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 604.5 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

614.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brand.colorado.edu main page is 1.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 478.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 43.4 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 35.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 478.3 kB
  • After minification 460.4 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. Brand Colorado images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 267.9 kB

  • Original 366.6 kB
  • After minification 301.1 kB
  • After compression 98.7 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 267.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 283.5 kB

  • Original 331.0 kB
  • After minification 327.7 kB
  • After compression 47.5 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. Brand.colorado.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 283.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brand Colorado. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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197 ms

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87 ms

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57 ms

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163 ms

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114 ms

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206 ms

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103 ms

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73 ms

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47 ms

Accessibility Review

brand.colorado.edu accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

brand.colorado.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

SEO Factors

brand.colorado.edu SEO score

85

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

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 Brand.colorado.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 Brand.colorado.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

brand.colorado.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Brand Colorado. 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: