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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

marinesciences.uconn.edu

Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

336 ms

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About Website

Welcome to marinesciences.uconn.edu homepage info - get ready to check Marine Sciences Uconn best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about marinesciences.uconn.edu

UConn's Marine Sciences Department conducts national and international research in physical, chemical, and biological oceanography. We offer majors and minors in Marine Sciences to undergraduates...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marinesciences.uconn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1.4 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

marinesciences.uconn.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.985

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marinesciences.uconn.edu

55 ms

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100 ms

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Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Marinesciences.uconn.edu, 53% (72 requests) were made to Aurora.media.uconn.edu and 37% (51 requests) were made to Marinesciences.media.uconn.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (599 ms) relates to the external source Marinesciences.media.uconn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.7 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Marinesciences.uconn.edu main page is 5.7 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 153.4 kB
  • After minification 149.1 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 129.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 259.8 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.7 MB

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. Marine Sciences Uconn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 382.5 kB
  • After minification 381.2 kB
  • After compression 336.5 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 46.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 190.5 kB
  • After compression 137.7 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. Marinesciences.uconn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 66 (52%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

62

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marine Sciences Uconn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

marinesciences.uconn.edu accessibility score

94

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

marinesciences.uconn.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

marinesciences.uconn.edu SEO score

89

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 Marinesciences.uconn.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 Marinesciences.uconn.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

marinesciences.uconn.edu

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Marine Sciences Uconn. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: