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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ches.ua.edu

The College of Human Environmental Sciences - Home

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

517 ms

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About Website

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Official Website of The College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alabama

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ches.ua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ches.ua.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.197

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ches.ua.edu

77 ms

www.ches.ua.edu

279 ms

modernizr.custom.js

160 ms

sites.css

83 ms

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58 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Ches.ua.edu, 27% (21 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (836 ms) belongs to the original domain Ches.ua.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ches.ua.edu main page is 3.1 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. 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 83.9 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 14.1 kB, which is 14% 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 83.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 50.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Ches Ua images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 566.8 kB

  • Original 840.0 kB
  • After minification 813.3 kB
  • After compression 273.3 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 566.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 389.0 kB

  • Original 468.2 kB
  • After minification 463.5 kB
  • After compression 79.2 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. Ches.ua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 389.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (51%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ches Ua. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ches.ua.edu accessibility score

74

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

ches.ua.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

SEO Factors

ches.ua.edu SEO score

82

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ches.ua.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ches.ua.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

ches.ua.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ches Ua. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: