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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

massachusetts.edu

University of Massachusetts – UMass | College Education

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

massachusetts.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit massachusetts.edu now to see the best up-to-date Massachusetts content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about massachusetts.edu

The University of Massachusetts offers a college education and gives details about the UMass System, President’s Office, and campuses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Massachusetts.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

massachusetts.edu performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,780 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.065

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

massachusetts.edu

136 ms

www.massachusetts.edu

145 ms

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63 ms

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7 ms

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30 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Massachusetts.edu, 12% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (669 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Massachusetts.edu main page is 1.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 727.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 167.4 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 170.0 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 167.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 342.9 kB
  • After minification 331.7 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. Massachusetts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 727.1 kB
  • After minification 727.1 kB
  • After compression 691.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 127.7 kB
  • After minification 127.7 kB
  • After compression 123.8 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. Massachusetts.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (51%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Massachusetts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

massachusetts.edu

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136 ms

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145 ms

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Accessibility Review

massachusetts.edu accessibility score

91

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

massachusetts.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

massachusetts.edu SEO score

97

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 Massachusetts.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 Massachusetts.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

massachusetts.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Massachusetts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: