Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sog.unc.edu

UNC School of Government

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

999 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sog.unc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sog.unc.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sog.unc.edu

31 ms

www.sog.unc.edu

93 ms

system.base.css

20 ms

system.menus.css

27 ms

system.messages.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Sog.unc.edu, 12% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) belongs to the original domain Sog.unc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (12%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

9.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sog.unc.edu main page is 10.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 9.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 70.2 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 86.0 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 70.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 402.6 kB

  • Original 9.5 MB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Sog UNC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 27.7 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 23.8 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 715.3 kB

  • Original 765.9 kB
  • After minification 282.8 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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. Sog.unc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 715.3 kB or 93% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (54%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sog UNC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sog.unc.edu accessibility score

51

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sog.unc.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sog.unc.edu SEO score

77

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Sog.unc.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 Sog.unc.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 Sog UNC. 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: