Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

unict.it

Università di Catania

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

801 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Visit unict.it now to see the best up-to-date Unict content for Italy and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about unict.it

L'Università di Catania è un'università statale fondata nel 1434 - è la più antica università della Sicilia - e tra le maggiori in Italia per numero d'iscritti.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unict.it page load time and found that the first response time was 801 ms and then it took 2.7 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

unict.it performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.807

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unict.it

801 ms

css

25 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

223 ms

css_cnmGo_rL1WCPXHTyOLvQOaaNgx3OJRm0JYqQrNnUoGY.css

351 ms

css_5Uq2t6Rp7CEYaSQn_pUshfgYhoYsXy1FMrjlJn3e7AU.css

237 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Unict.it, 5% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Unict.it.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 631.0 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

470.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Unict.it main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 478.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 40.1 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 30.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 375.8 kB
  • After minification 345.6 kB

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. Unict images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 156.1 kB

  • Original 207.1 kB
  • After minification 170.4 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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 156.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 413.7 kB

  • Original 478.9 kB
  • After minification 404.8 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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. Unict.it needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 413.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unict. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

unict.it 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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

unict.it best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

unict.it SEO score

98

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

    IT

  • Language Claimed

    IT

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Unict.it can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Italian is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Unict.it 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 description is not detected on the main page of Unict. 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: