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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

uiuc.com

Home | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

uiuc.com screenshot

About Website

Visit uiuc.com now to see the best up-to-date Uiuc content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about uiuc.com

Information for students, alumni, and parents from Illinois flagship public university, a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uiuc.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uiuc.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uiuc.com

109 ms

illinois.edu

113 ms

main.css

137 ms

font-awesome.min.css

8 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Uiuc.com, 57% (62 requests) were made to Illinois.edu and 10% (11 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Illinois.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 630.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Uiuc.com main page is 4.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 147.0 kB

  • Original 167.9 kB
  • After minification 148.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.0 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 147.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Uiuc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 352.6 kB

  • Original 519.2 kB
  • After minification 490.4 kB
  • After compression 166.6 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 352.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 120.6 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. Uiuc.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (50%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uiuc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

uiuc.com

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109 ms

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113 ms

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91 ms

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Accessibility Review

uiuc.com accessibility score

91

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

uiuc.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

uiuc.com SEO score

85

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uiuc.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Uiuc.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

uiuc.com

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