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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ulbands.com

UL Lafayette Bands | School of Music & Performing Arts

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

246 ms

ulbands.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ulbands.com homepage info - get ready to check UL Bands best content right away, or after learning these important things about ulbands.com

At UL Lafayette, we have six ensembles, from the traditional marching band to jazz ensemble, from the classic concert band to the Ragin' Brass pep band.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ulbands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ulbands.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.691

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ulbands.com

13 ms

bands

534 ms

system.base.css

124 ms

system.menus.css

125 ms

system.messages.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ulbands.com, 91% (89 requests) were made to Music.louisiana.edu and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (912 ms) relates to the external source Music.louisiana.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ulbands.com 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 51.6 kB
  • After minification 48.0 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 40.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. UL Bands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 101.7 kB
  • After minification 100.7 kB
  • After compression 84.7 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 17.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 43.7 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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. Ulbands.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (61%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UL Bands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ulbands.com

ulbands.com

13 ms

bands

bands

534 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

124 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

125 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

125 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

125 ms

calendar_multiday.css

calendar_multiday.css

127 ms

date.css

date.css

126 ms

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datepicker.1.7.css

246 ms

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247 ms

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246 ms

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247 ms

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248 ms

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252 ms

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369 ms

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369 ms

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370 ms

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ckeditor.css

370 ms

colorbox_style.css

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370 ms

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374 ms

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492 ms

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493 ms

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493 ms

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494 ms

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493 ms

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614 ms

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615 ms

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615 ms

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616 ms

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616 ms

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619 ms

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739 ms

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743 ms

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738 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

784 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

742 ms

buttons.js

buttons.js

18 ms

js

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57 ms

printfriendly.js

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48 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

740 ms

admin_devel.js

admin_devel.js

743 ms

google_cse.js

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742 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

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743 ms

googleanalytics.js

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783 ms

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745 ms

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742 ms

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781 ms

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747 ms

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all.css

29 ms

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414 ms

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56 ms

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373 ms

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123 ms

Accessibility Review

ulbands.com accessibility score

70

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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 IDs are not unique

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

ulbands.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ulbands.com SEO score

82

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

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 Ulbands.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 Ulbands.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

ulbands.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of UL Bands. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: