Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

admissions.catalyst.uc.edu

Undergraduate Admissions - University of Cincinnati Admissions | University of Cincinnati

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.catalyst.uc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.catalyst.uc.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,130 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.uc.edu

233 ms

gtm.js

107 ms

uofcincinnati.js

53 ms

libs.a2c30556216ed6dea41fcdf6a60f781d.css

177 ms

utils.7bd510ed1afcc61c87a84c49c1a222a8.css

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Admissions.catalyst.uc.edu, 32% (18 requests) were made to Admissions.uc.edu and 11% (6 requests) were made to Uofcincinnati.blueconic.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (760 ms) relates to the external source Admissions.uc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.5 kB (32%)

Content Size

774.1 kB

After Optimization

526.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Admissions.catalyst.uc.edu main page is 774.1 kB. 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 296.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 104.3 kB

  • Original 118.6 kB
  • After minification 94.3 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 24.2 kB, which is 20% 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 104.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 216.0 kB
  • After minification 214.3 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. Admissions Catalyst Uc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 296.1 kB
  • After minification 296.1 kB
  • After compression 202.5 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 93.6 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 143.4 kB
  • After minification 143.2 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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. Admissions.catalyst.uc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.0 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (73%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Catalyst Uc. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

admissions.catalyst.uc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

admissions.catalyst.uc.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

admissions.catalyst.uc.edu SEO score

99

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 Admissions.catalyst.uc.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 Admissions.catalyst.uc.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 Admissions Catalyst Uc. 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: