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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

cs.umbc.edu

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering - UMBC

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

152 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cs.umbc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cs.umbc.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,190 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cs.umbc.edu

781 ms

www.csee.umbc.edu

1400 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

29 ms

csee-highlights-style.css

21 ms

twitter-feed.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cs.umbc.edu, 83% (77 requests) were made to Csee.umbc.edu and 3% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Csee.umbc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 338.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

884.8 kB

After Optimization

545.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cs.umbc.edu main page is 884.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 380.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 76.2 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 58.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 380.7 kB
  • After minification 365.6 kB

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. Cs UMBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 165.9 kB

  • Original 262.1 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 96.2 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 165.9 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 99.6 kB

  • Original 165.8 kB
  • After minification 153.1 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. Cs.umbc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (48%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

46

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cs UMBC. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cs.umbc.edu

cs.umbc.edu

781 ms

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1400 ms

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Accessibility Review

cs.umbc.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

cs.umbc.edu best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cs.umbc.edu SEO score

92

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 Cs.umbc.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 Cs.umbc.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

cs.umbc.edu

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