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usf.edu

Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee, FL

Page Load Speed

835 ms in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

611 ms

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

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

The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 86 ms and then it took 749 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

usf.edu

86 ms

www.usf.edu

162 ms

global-styles.css

62 ms

home.css

91 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Usf.edu, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.usf.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (188 ms) belongs to the original domain Usf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usf.edu main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 14% 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 21.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Usf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 115.3 kB

  • Original 198.1 kB
  • After minification 166.3 kB
  • After compression 82.8 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 115.3 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 49.9 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Usf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (13%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Usf. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

usf.edu

usf.edu

86 ms

www.usf.edu

www.usf.edu

162 ms

global-styles.css

global-styles.css

62 ms

home.css

home.css

91 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

functions.js

functions.js

112 ms

home-functions.js

home-functions.js

114 ms

emergency-alerts.js

emergency-alerts.js

115 ms

ga.js

ga.js

34 ms

siteanalyze_1387.js

siteanalyze_1387.js

49 ms

38 ms

BedeworksJSON.aspx

BedeworksJSON.aspx

69 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

35 ms

top-bar-glow.jpg

top-bar-glow.jpg

32 ms

top-bar-welcome.png

top-bar-welcome.png

33 ms

banner-logo.png

banner-logo.png

33 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

61 ms

icon-paper.png

icon-paper.png

63 ms

icon-book.png

icon-book.png

64 ms

icon-person.png

icon-person.png

65 ms

icon-wrench.png

icon-wrench.png

64 ms

rotator-young-innovator-comp.jpg

rotator-young-innovator-comp.jpg

149 ms

rotator-midsummer-actors.jpg

rotator-midsummer-actors.jpg

152 ms

rotator-matt-kenseth.jpg

rotator-matt-kenseth.jpg

120 ms

grey-arrow.png

grey-arrow.png

92 ms

football-season-tickets.jpg

football-season-tickets.jpg

94 ms

mba-widget.jpg

mba-widget.jpg

159 ms

loading.jpg

loading.jpg

121 ms

tile_usf_at_lightning.jpg

tile_usf_at_lightning.jpg

126 ms

tile-online-learning.jpg

tile-online-learning.jpg

150 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

151 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

157 ms

youtube.jpg

youtube.jpg

178 ms

linkedin.jpg

linkedin.jpg

179 ms

instagram.jpg

instagram.jpg

180 ms

snapchat.jpg

snapchat.jpg

181 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

188 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

15 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

40 ms

print.css

print.css

34 ms

SEO Factors

usf.edu SEO score

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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 Usf.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 Usf.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

usf.edu

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