Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

itservices.uchicago.edu

Information Technology Services at UChicago

Page Load Speed

802 ms in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

598 ms

Page Rendered

194 ms

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About Website

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IT Services collaborates with campus partners to support the mission of the University of Chicago through the consistent delivery of high quality technology solutions and services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itservices.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 10 ms and then it took 792 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itservices.uchicago.edu performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.186

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itservices.uchicago.edu

10 ms

itservices.uchicago.edu

46 ms

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11 ms

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16 ms

css_Wvx69yhFdFBmmlrnemSBfnf7QPBiSNR1Z8wpWOmbFpY.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Itservices.uchicago.edu, 9% (3 requests) were made to Identity.uchicago.edu and 9% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (263 ms) relates to the external source Events.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.7 kB (71%)

Content Size

683.7 kB

After Optimization

200.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Itservices.uchicago.edu main page is 683.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 324.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 34.5 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 28.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 27.8 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 Services UChicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 210.7 kB

  • Original 324.5 kB
  • After minification 304.0 kB
  • After compression 113.8 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 210.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 242.7 kB

  • Original 292.7 kB
  • After minification 282.4 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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. Itservices.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 242.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of It Services UChicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itservices.uchicago.edu accessibility score

95

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

itservices.uchicago.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

itservices.uchicago.edu SEO score

92

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 Itservices.uchicago.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 Itservices.uchicago.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 It Services UChicago. 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: