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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ucmerced.edu

University of California, Merced

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

643 ms

ucmerced.edu screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Uc Merced content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ucmerced.edu

UC Merced is the University of California system's newest campus and the nation's first research institution of the 21st century. Located in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley. Funct...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucmerced.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.6 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

ucmerced.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.192

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucmerced.edu

202 ms

www.ucmerced.edu

160 ms

marvel.js

32 ms

css2

48 ms

css2

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Ucmerced.edu, 5% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (826 ms) belongs to the original domain Ucmerced.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ucmerced.edu main page is 1.9 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 129.0 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 152.0 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Uc Merced images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 60.0 kB

  • Original 524.2 kB
  • After minification 521.6 kB
  • After compression 464.2 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 60.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 155.3 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 155.1 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. Ucmerced.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (78%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uc Merced. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 92 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ucmerced.edu

ucmerced.edu

202 ms

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Accessibility Review

ucmerced.edu accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ucmerced.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ucmerced.edu SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ucmerced.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 Ucmerced.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

ucmerced.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Uc Merced. 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: