Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

uctoday.com

UC Today - UC News - Unified Communications & Collaboration Tech News

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uctoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uctoday.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.477

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uctoday.com

57 ms

www.uctoday.com

81 ms

atc.min.js

30 ms

blocks.style.build.css

16 ms

password-lost.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Uctoday.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.addevent.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Js-eu1.hs-scripts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (523 ms) relates to the external source Js-eu1.hs-banner.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Uctoday.com main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 90.3 kB
  • After minification 84.3 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 74.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 149.3 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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 Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 85.7 kB
  • After minification 85.7 kB
  • After compression 53.0 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 32.8 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (62%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UC Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uctoday.com accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

uctoday.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

uctoday.com SEO score

93

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

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 Uctoday.com 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 Uctoday.com 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 data is detected on the main page of UC Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: