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news.uconn.edu

The UConn Advance

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

892 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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About Website

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The Weekly Faculty/Staff Newspaper for the University of Connecticut

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.uconn.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.uconn.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.uconn.edu

81 ms

borders.css

19 ms

custom.css

25 ms

editing.css

26 ms

facultystaff.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original News.uconn.edu, 36% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (642 ms) belongs to the original domain News.uconn.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.5 kB (74%)

Content Size

63.0 kB

After Optimization

16.5 kB

In fact, the total size of News.uconn.edu main page is 63.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 33.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 10.1 kB, which is 31% 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 29.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 4.4 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, News UConn needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 542 B

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. News.uconn.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (73%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.uconn.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 News.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News UConn. 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: