Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

library.unco.edu

Libraries

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

242 ms

Resources Loaded

994 ms

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Library.unco.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 242 ms and then it took 1.3 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

library.unco.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

library.unco.edu

242 ms

master.asp

93 ms

custom.css

90 ms

SpryTabbedPanels.css

96 ms

font-awesome.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Library.unco.edu, 32% (18 requests) were made to Unco.edu and 13% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (335 ms) relates to the external source Unco.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.7 kB (44%)

Content Size

295.7 kB

After Optimization

165.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Library.unco.edu main page is 295.7 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. Images take 114.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.9 kB, which is 17% 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 27.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 87.6 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. Obviously, Library Unco needs image optimization as it can save up to 26.4 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 68.6 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 18.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.5 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Library.unco.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (47%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Library Unco. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

library.unco.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

library.unco.edu best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

library.unco.edu SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Library.unco.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 Library.unco.edu main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Library Unco. 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: