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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

antarctica.uab.edu

Home - Antarctica - UAB College of Arts and Sciences

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

718 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Antarctica.uab.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

antarctica.uab.edu performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

antarctica

108 ms

38 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

44 ms

otSDKStub.js

64 ms

pqq8aix.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Antarctica.uab.edu, 14% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (139 ms) relates to the external source Uab.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Antarctica.uab.edu main page is 5.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 184.7 kB

  • Original 212.8 kB
  • After minification 152.8 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 60.0 kB, which is 28% 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 184.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Antarctica UAB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 358 B

  • Original 223.0 kB
  • After minification 223.0 kB
  • After compression 222.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 161.7 kB
  • After minification 161.7 kB
  • After compression 159.3 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. Antarctica.uab.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (57%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Antarctica UAB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

antarctica

antarctica

108 ms

38 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

44 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

64 ms

pqq8aix.css

pqq8aix.css

54 ms

awesomplete.css

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36 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

joomla-alert.min.css

50 ms

content.min.css

content.min.css

51 ms

jcemediabox.min.css

jcemediabox.min.css

50 ms

site.css

site.css

70 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

77 ms

jquery-noconflict.min.js

jquery-noconflict.min.js

50 ms

menu-es5.min.js

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78 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

70 ms

finder-es5.min.js

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77 ms

messages-es5.min.js

messages-es5.min.js

76 ms

awesomplete.min.js

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80 ms

finder.min.js

finder.min.js

81 ms

messages.min.js

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95 ms

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103 ms

maps.js

maps.js

97 ms

uikit.min.js

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118 ms

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96 ms

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97 ms

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101 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

127 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

111 ms

uikit.css

uikit.css

112 ms

uab-tailwind.css

uab-tailwind.css

139 ms

main.css

main.css

125 ms

site_specific.css

site_specific.css

137 ms

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1243b65314.js

59 ms

js

js

74 ms

cse.js

cse.js

39 ms

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31 ms

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p.css

17 ms

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44 ms

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Accessibility Review

antarctica.uab.edu accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

antarctica.uab.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

antarctica.uab.edu SEO score

85

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

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

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 Antarctica.uab.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 Antarctica.uab.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

antarctica.uab.edu

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