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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

apply.grad.ucla.edu

Graduate Admissions at the University of California Los Angeles | UCLA Graduate Programs

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

549 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.grad.ucla.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.grad.ucla.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

211 ms

481 ms

333 ms

jquery.min.js

109 ms

userlogin-dropdown.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Apply.grad.ucla.edu, 80% (48 requests) were made to Grad.ucla.edu and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Grad.ucla.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

881.5 kB

After Optimization

766.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apply.grad.ucla.edu main page is 881.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 510.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 48.4 kB

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 56.9 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. 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 48.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 510.0 kB
  • After minification 501.7 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. Apply Grad UCLA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 218.2 kB
  • After minification 215.2 kB
  • After compression 194.7 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 23.5 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 92.7 kB
  • After minification 66.6 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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. Apply.grad.ucla.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (78%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Grad UCLA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

211 ms

481 ms

333 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

109 ms

userlogin-dropdown.css

userlogin-dropdown.css

210 ms

signup.css

signup.css

283 ms

smartrecs-common.css

smartrecs-common.css

366 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

445 ms

modal.css

modal.css

513 ms

icon

icon

135 ms

UserLogin-dropdown.js

UserLogin-dropdown.js

527 ms

signup.js

signup.js

528 ms

recommendation-subnav.js

recommendation-subnav.js

551 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

630 ms

block-frontend.css

block-frontend.css

626 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

104 ms

style.css

style.css

628 ms

ucla-common.css

ucla-common.css

625 ms

custom.css

custom.css

704 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

699 ms

google-custom-search-results.css

google-custom-search-results.css

698 ms

eventon_styles.css

eventon_styles.css

771 ms

eventon_dynamic_styles.css

eventon_dynamic_styles.css

695 ms

awp-columns.css

awp-columns.css

767 ms

jquery-1.12.4-wp.js

jquery-1.12.4-wp.js

840 ms

jquery-migrate-1.4.1-wp.js

jquery-migrate-1.4.1-wp.js

705 ms

jquery.gdscrollto.js

jquery.gdscrollto.js

704 ms

js

js

113 ms

user-info.js

user-info.js

772 ms

46 ms

jquery-navigation.js

jquery-navigation.js

706 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

707 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

704 ms

gd-parallax.js

gd-parallax.js

718 ms

gd-mobile-nav-scroll-setup.js

gd-mobile-nav-scroll-setup.js

871 ms

js

js

92 ms

eventon_gen_maps.js

eventon_gen_maps.js

870 ms

eventon_functions.js

eventon_functions.js

875 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

875 ms

handlebars.js

handlebars.js

1217 ms

external_api.js

external_api.js

68 ms

jquery.mobile.min.js

jquery.mobile.min.js

875 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

875 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

875 ms

eventon_script.js

eventon_script.js

877 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

413 ms

sidebarv2.js

sidebarv2.js

25 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

112 ms

ucla-grad-logo.png

ucla-grad-logo.png

112 ms

ucla-prestige-4-tuition-royce-hall-arches-to-library.jpg

ucla-prestige-4-tuition-royce-hall-arches-to-library.jpg

201 ms

ucla-graduate-hooding-1.jpg

ucla-graduate-hooding-1.jpg

267 ms

ucla-graduate-hooding-10.jpg

ucla-graduate-hooding-10.jpg

200 ms

ucla-graduate-bbq-1.jpg

ucla-graduate-bbq-1.jpg

265 ms

ucla-graduate-campus-1.jpg

ucla-graduate-campus-1.jpg

487 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

37 ms

ga.js

ga.js

102 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

135 ms

gen_204

gen_204

94 ms

73 ms

print.css

print.css

71 ms

Accessibility Review

apply.grad.ucla.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apply.grad.ucla.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

apply.grad.ucla.edu SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Apply.grad.ucla.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 Apply.grad.ucla.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

apply.grad.ucla.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Apply Grad UCLA. 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: