Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

grad.uic.edu

Graduate College | University of Illinois Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

grad.uic.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit grad.uic.edu now to see the best up-to-date Grad Uic content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about grad.uic.edu

The UIC Graduate College, located in downtown Chicago, offers Masters programs and Doctoral programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grad.uic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grad.uic.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grad.uic.edu

256 ms

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82 ms

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87 ms

css_wsDTKl3RB9sBJFbvr-kHK6SmOwCJeGupTRRqU4grjJw.css

90 ms

css_cZKtHigXfCrRkCKqXxAAJqv4QR_HDhJ8lCI5SXhxMfg.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Grad.uic.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (438 ms) belongs to the original domain Grad.uic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 617.0 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

953.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Grad.uic.edu main page is 1.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 790.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 73.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 790.7 kB
  • After minification 774.8 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. Grad Uic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 369.3 kB

  • Original 498.9 kB
  • After minification 430.0 kB
  • After compression 129.6 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 369.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 158.8 kB

  • Original 191.9 kB
  • After minification 187.9 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Grad.uic.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 158.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (28%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grad Uic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

grad.uic.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.

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

grad.uic.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

SEO Factors

grad.uic.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 Grad.uic.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 Grad.uic.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 Grad Uic. 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: