Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

che.udel.edu

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at University of Delaware

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

377 ms

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About Website

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

U.S. News and World Report consistently ranks UD’s chemical engineering program among the top ten in the nation for undergraduate and graduate programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Che.udel.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 42 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

che.udel.edu performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.531

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

che.udel.edu

42 ms

cbe.udel.edu

1267 ms

style.css

17 ms

default.css

13 ms

tablepress-responsive.min.css

61 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Che.udel.edu, 81% (51 requests) were made to Cbe.udel.edu and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Cbe.udel.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Che.udel.edu main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 161.9 kB

  • Original 208.7 kB
  • After minification 203.5 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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 161.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 422 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Che Udel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 355.8 kB
  • After minification 355.6 kB
  • After compression 320.8 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

-43%

Potential reduce by 72.3 kB

  • Original 168.7 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 96.5 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. Che.udel.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.3 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (61%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Che Udel. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

che.udel.edu accessibility score

92

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

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

che.udel.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

che.udel.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 Che.udel.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 Che.udel.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 data is detected on the main page of Che Udel. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: