Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

lscg.ucsb.edu

Home | Life Sciences Computing Group (LSCG) | UC Santa Barbara

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

212 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

132 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lscg.ucsb.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 212 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lscg.ucsb.edu performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.212

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lscg.ucsb.edu

212 ms

www.lscg.ucsb.edu

490 ms

css_4HbNOb3kY6lX86_S1gCjaKlMmeImvkx6viAoM_IHi4I.css

72 ms

all.css

82 ms

css_MIoRdJwv97B1LjNsuNshwEDxGkni4GFT0ETTBdlvNcA.css

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Lscg.ucsb.edu, 51% (22 requests) were made to Webfonts.brand.ucsb.edu and 9% (4 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (490 ms) belongs to the original domain Lscg.ucsb.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

258.0 kB

After Optimization

235.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Lscg.ucsb.edu main page is 258.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 107.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 17.3 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 2.1 kB, which is 11% 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 14.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 78.1 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. LSCG UC Sb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 188 B

  • Original 107.1 kB
  • After minification 107.0 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 50.1 kB
  • After minification 50.1 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Lscg.ucsb.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (65%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LSCG UC Sb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lscg.ucsb.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

lscg.ucsb.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

lscg.ucsb.edu SEO score

88

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lscg.ucsb.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 Lscg.ucsb.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 LSCG UC Sb. 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: