Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

create.ucsd.edu

Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment & Teaching Excellence

Page Load Speed

41.6 sec in total

First Response

333 ms

Resources Loaded

40.6 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Create.ucsd.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 333 ms and then it took 41.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

create.ucsd.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

create.ucsd.edu

333 ms

bootstrap.min.css

134 ms

homepage.css

133 ms

white.css

133 ms

modernizr.min.js

265 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Create.ucsd.edu, 30% (25 requests) were made to Cdn.ucsd.edu and 7% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20 sec) relates to the external source Qa-cdn.ucsd.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (17%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Create.ucsd.edu main page is 8.3 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. 80% 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 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 51.2 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 27.0 kB, which is 53% 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 45.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Obviously, Create Ucsd needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 116.4 kB

  • Original 335.7 kB
  • After minification 335.4 kB
  • After compression 219.3 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 116.4 kB or 35% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 168.3 kB

  • Original 263.2 kB
  • After minification 257.7 kB
  • After compression 94.9 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. Create.ucsd.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (36%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Create Ucsd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

create.ucsd.edu accessibility score

88

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

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

create.ucsd.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

create.ucsd.edu SEO score

90

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

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 Create.ucsd.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 Create.ucsd.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 description is not detected on the main page of Create Ucsd. 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: