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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

communications.uconn.edu

University of Connecticut | University Communications

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

60 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Communications.uconn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 60 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

communications.uconn.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

communications.uconn.edu

60 ms

universitycommunications.uconn.edu

363 ms

css2

77 ms

banner.css

114 ms

main.css

120 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Communications.uconn.edu, 28% (19 requests) were made to Uconn.edu and 17% (12 requests) were made to Universitycommunications.uconn.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (815 ms) relates to the external source Universitycommunications.uconn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 681.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Communications.uconn.edu main page is 9.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 50.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Communications Uconn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 222.4 kB

  • Original 481.7 kB
  • After minification 481.3 kB
  • After compression 259.3 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 222.4 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 323.3 kB

  • Original 449.1 kB
  • After minification 448.3 kB
  • After compression 125.8 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. Communications.uconn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 323.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (61%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Communications Uconn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

communications.uconn.edu

communications.uconn.edu

60 ms

universitycommunications.uconn.edu

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363 ms

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77 ms

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114 ms

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Accessibility Review

communications.uconn.edu accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

communications.uconn.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

communications.uconn.edu SEO score

90

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

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 Communications.uconn.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 Communications.uconn.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

communications.uconn.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Communications Uconn. 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: