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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

umsl.edu

University of Missouri–St. Louis | UMSL

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Umsl.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

umsl.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

umsl.edu

128 ms

umsl.edu

205 ms

fbevents.js

65 ms

all.min.css

57 ms

bootstrap-secondary.css

344 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Umsl.edu, 13% (14 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (820 ms) belongs to the original domain Umsl.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 897.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Umsl.edu main page is 3.0 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. 80% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 92.5 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 88.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 22.1 kB, which is 20% 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 92.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. UMSL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 371.0 kB

  • Original 623.6 kB
  • After minification 470.1 kB
  • After compression 252.6 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 371.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 384.6 kB

  • Original 448.0 kB
  • After minification 334.6 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Umsl.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 384.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (64%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UMSL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

umsl.edu

umsl.edu

128 ms

umsl.edu

umsl.edu

205 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

65 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

57 ms

bootstrap-secondary.css

bootstrap-secondary.css

344 ms

umsl-main-secondary1.css

umsl-main-secondary1.css

416 ms

umsl-main.css

umsl-main.css

301 ms

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311 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

60 ms

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60th-homepage.css

309 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

267 ms

view

view

140 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

120 ms

aos.js

aos.js

57 ms

bootstrap-secondary.js

bootstrap-secondary.js

350 ms

main.bundle.js

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186 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

123 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

93 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

121 ms

new-umsl-main.js

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586 ms

modernizr.min.js

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119 ms

TweenMax.min.js

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118 ms

ScrollMagic.min.js

ScrollMagic.min.js

120 ms

animation.gsap.js

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129 ms

debug.addIndicators.min.js

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120 ms

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css2

30 ms

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css2

22 ms

css2

css2

32 ms

css2

css2

40 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

17 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

164 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

351 ms

umsl-logo.jpg

umsl-logo.jpg

336 ms

umsl-logo.png

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110 ms

umsl-logo.svg

umsl-logo.svg

110 ms

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151 ms

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152 ms

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155 ms

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151 ms

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337 ms

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658 ms

umsl-colorblock.jpg

umsl-colorblock.jpg

334 ms

umsl-spirit-mark_white.png

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334 ms

student-gold.jpg

student-gold.jpg

336 ms

student-blossom.jpg

student-blossom.jpg

661 ms

stl-students.jpg

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536 ms

transform.jpg

transform.jpg

820 ms

transform-mobile.jpg

transform-mobile.jpg

557 ms

tour-2023.jpg

tour-2023.jpg

661 ms

umsl-word-mark_wht.svg

umsl-word-mark_wht.svg

658 ms

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427 ms

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528 ms

umsl-spirit-mark_silver.svg

umsl-spirit-mark_silver.svg

724 ms

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236 ms

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434 ms

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458 ms

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456 ms

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525 ms

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52 ms

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

fa-v4compatibility.ttf

46 ms

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fa-regular-400.ttf

46 ms

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51 ms

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50 ms

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524 ms

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558 ms

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554 ms

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cse.js

447 ms

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prev.png

590 ms

next.png

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592 ms

loading.gif

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588 ms

close.png

close.png

588 ms

collect

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369 ms

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214 ms

collect

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205 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

530 ms

scevent.min.js

scevent.min.js

526 ms

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361 ms

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362 ms

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359 ms

bat.js

bat.js

360 ms

hotjar-3527832.js

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510 ms

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407 ms

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cse_element__en.js

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default+en.css

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clarity.js

clarity.js

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Accessibility Review

umsl.edu accessibility score

79

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

umsl.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

umsl.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Umsl.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 Umsl.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

umsl.edu

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