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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

Physical Sciences Division | The University of Chicago

Page Load Speed

831 ms in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

462 ms

Page Rendered

314 ms

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About Website

Visit physicalsciences.uchicago.edu now to see the best up-to-date Physical Sciences U Chicago content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

The UChicago Physical Sciences Division fosters an inclusive and creative research environment and shapes the next generations of scientists and mathematicians.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Physicalsciences.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 776 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

55 ms

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

30 ms

js

78 ms

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

91 ms

site.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Physicalsciences.uchicago.edu, 60% (21 requests) were made to D3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net and 14% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (208 ms) relates to the external source Kit.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (58%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Physicalsciences.uchicago.edu main page is 5.6 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 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 15.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 3.2 MB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, Physical Sciences U Chicago needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.2 MB or 60% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 165.8 kB
  • After minification 165.8 kB
  • After compression 122.7 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 43.1 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Physicalsciences.uchicago.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (22%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Physical Sciences U Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

55 ms

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physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

30 ms

js

js

78 ms

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

91 ms

site.css

site.css

41 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

71 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

71 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

89 ms

8070e183dd.js

8070e183dd.js

208 ms

core-min.js

core-min.js

63 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

156 ms

shield.svg

shield.svg

97 ms

data_psd.svg

data_psd.svg

62 ms

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116 ms

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131 ms

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128 ms

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112 ms

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126 ms

website.png

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120 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

113 ms

uchicago_wordmark_maroon-transparent.svg

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117 ms

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54 ms

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GothamBook_normal_normal.woff

121 ms

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122 ms

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GothamExtraLight_normal_normal.woff

121 ms

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GothamMedium_normal_normal.woff

122 ms

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126 ms

prev.png

prev.png

83 ms

next.png

next.png

87 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

91 ms

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close.png

91 ms

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Clarivate_HCR_EndFrame_300.png

86 ms

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86 ms

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85 ms

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84 ms

Accessibility Review

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Physicalsciences.uchicago.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 Physicalsciences.uchicago.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

physicalsciences.uchicago.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Physical Sciences U Chicago. 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: