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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

it.usf.edu

Information Technology | University of South Florida

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

875 ms

Page Rendered

264 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed It.usf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 1.1 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

it.usf.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

it.usf.edu

93 ms

it

132 ms

125 ms

USF-Master-v3.css

68 ms

it-styles.css

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original It.usf.edu, 65% (26 requests) were made to Usf.edu and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (376 ms) relates to the external source Usf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 285.5 kB (30%)

Content Size

939.6 kB

After Optimization

654.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of It.usf.edu main page is 939.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 602.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 26.9 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.2 kB, which is 34% 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 26.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 602.8 kB
  • After minification 597.8 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. It Usf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 83.1 kB
  • After minification 83.1 kB
  • After compression 46.2 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 36.8 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-98%

Potential reduce by 216.7 kB

  • Original 220.6 kB
  • After minification 27.0 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. It.usf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 216.7 kB or 98% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (31%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of It Usf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

it.usf.edu

it.usf.edu

93 ms

it

it

132 ms

125 ms

USF-Master-v3.css

USF-Master-v3.css

68 ms

it-styles.css

it-styles.css

110 ms

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110 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

51 ms

css2

css2

55 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

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jquery-1.4.1.easing.min.js

109 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

180 ms

chatbot_wrapper.js

chatbot_wrapper.js

196 ms

css

css

18 ms

css

css

26 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

129 ms

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239 ms

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81 ms

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Accessibility Review

it.usf.edu accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

it.usf.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

it.usf.edu SEO score

83

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 It.usf.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 It.usf.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

it.usf.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of It Usf. 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: