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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

illinois.edu

Home | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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About Website

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Information for students, alumni, and parents from Illinois flagship public university, a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illinois.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

illinois.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.23

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illinois.edu

61 ms

illinois.edu

139 ms

js

72 ms

otSDKStub.js

38 ms

main.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Illinois.edu, 32% (23 requests) were made to Files.blogs.illinois.edu and 13% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (427 ms) relates to the external source Files.blogs.illinois.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Illinois.edu main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 179.2 kB

  • Original 199.8 kB
  • After minification 181.6 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 179.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Illinois images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 71.4 kB

  • Original 211.9 kB
  • After minification 205.2 kB
  • After compression 140.5 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 71.4 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 122.5 kB

  • Original 138.9 kB
  • After minification 105.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. Illinois.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (27%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illinois. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

illinois.edu

illinois.edu

61 ms

illinois.edu

illinois.edu

139 ms

js

js

72 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

38 ms

main.css

main.css

152 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

48 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

45 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

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36 ms

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180 ms

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311 ms

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310 ms

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309 ms

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310 ms

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308 ms

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308 ms

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403 ms

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427 ms

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167 ms

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148 ms

functions-min.js

functions-min.js

109 ms

ping

ping

62 ms

bhg8dpt.js

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59 ms

416.js

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234 ms

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234 ms

illinois_primary_wordmark_reversed_orange.svg

illinois_primary_wordmark_reversed_orange.svg

129 ms

submenu_about.jpg

submenu_about.jpg

131 ms

submenu_admission.jpg

submenu_admission.jpg

142 ms

submenu_academics.jpg

submenu_academics.jpg

142 ms

submenu_research.jpg

submenu_research.jpg

192 ms

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Nav_diversity.jpg

260 ms

submenu_outreach.jpg

submenu_outreach.jpg

199 ms

submenu_international.jpg

submenu_international.jpg

198 ms

submenu_arts.jpg

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191 ms

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230 ms

illinois_vertical_wordmark_reversed_orange.svg

illinois_vertical_wordmark_reversed_orange.svg

196 ms

otBannerSdk.js

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139 ms

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35 ms

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62 ms

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63 ms

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62 ms

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62 ms

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27 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

33 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

61 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

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97 ms

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59 ms

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98 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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31 ms

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Accessibility Review

illinois.edu accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

illinois.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

illinois.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Illinois.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 Illinois.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

illinois.edu

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