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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

connect.uconn.edu

Undergraduate Admissions | UConn : Undergraduate Admissions

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

864 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connect.uconn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 2.3 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

connect.uconn.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.uconn.edu

54 ms

admissions.uconn.edu

89 ms

style.min.css

33 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

71 ms

style.css

84 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 Connect.uconn.edu, 46% (32 requests) were made to Admissions.uconn.edu and 17% (12 requests) were made to Ucommobjectstorage.blob.core.windows.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (696 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 141.3 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connect.uconn.edu main page is 4.4 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 120.5 kB

  • Original 138.8 kB
  • After minification 134.6 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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 120.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Connect UConn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 1.6 kB

  • Original 169.2 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 167.6 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. Connect.uconn.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (63%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.uconn.edu

admissions.uconn.edu

54 ms

admissions.uconn.edu

admissions.uconn.edu

89 ms

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106 ms

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125 ms

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96 ms

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Accessibility Review

connect.uconn.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

connect.uconn.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

connect.uconn.edu SEO score

98

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 Connect.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 Connect.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

connect.uconn.edu

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