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uanews.ua.edu

University of Alabama News – News and features from The University of Alabama

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

150 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

332 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uanews.ua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 150 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uanews.ua.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

uanews.ua.edu

150 ms

style.css

62 ms

widget.css

42 ms

style.css

43 ms

jquery.dataTables.css

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Uanews.ua.edu, 6% (4 requests) were made to F.vimeocdn.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Undergraduate.ua.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 949.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

27.5 MB

After Optimization

26.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Uanews.ua.edu main page is 27.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 26.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 41.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 357.3 kB

  • Original 26.7 MB
  • After minification 26.3 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. Ua News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 375.9 kB

  • Original 569.5 kB
  • After minification 567.9 kB
  • After compression 193.6 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 375.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 173.9 kB

  • Original 202.6 kB
  • After minification 189.7 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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. Uanews.ua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (57%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ua News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

uanews.ua.edu SEO score

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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 Uanews.ua.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 Uanews.ua.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 Ua News. 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: