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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

aast.uark.edu

African and African American Studies | University of Arkansas

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

170 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

664 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aast.uark.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 170 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aast.uark.edu performance score

29

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aast.uark.edu

170 ms

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205 ms

gtm.js

99 ms

analytics.js

73 ms

v4-shims.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Aast.uark.edu, 16% (10 requests) were made to Includes.uark.edu and 13% (8 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Includes.uark.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 195.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aast.uark.edu main page is 3.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 39.6 kB

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 38.7 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.4 kB, which is 23% 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 39.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 147.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Aast Uark images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 333.3 kB
  • After minification 333.2 kB
  • After compression 325.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 661 B

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 214.5 kB
  • After compression 213.8 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. Aast.uark.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (34%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aast Uark. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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205 ms

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94 ms

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Accessibility Review

aast.uark.edu accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

aast.uark.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aast.uark.edu SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aast.uark.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 Aast.uark.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

aast.uark.edu

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