Access life.uiuc.edu. Life Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

life.uiuc.edu

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Life.uiuc.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (121 ms) belongs to the original domain Life.uiuc.edu.

Content Size

297 B

After Optimization

100 B

In fact, the total size of Life.uiuc.edu main page is 297 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 297 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 197 B

Original 297 B
After minification 113 B
After compression 100 B

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 184 B, which is 62% 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 197 B or 66% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Life.uiuc.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 Life.uiuc.edu main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

life.uiuc.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Life Uiuc. 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: