Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

utica.edu

Discover a future beyond your imagining | Utica University

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

896 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Utica.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec 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

utica.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.utica.edu

1643 ms

css_KH4GYltT1smNvkJuW19fs7TA3mrqZfOhjA1Hhy-QBFU.css

97 ms

fonts.css

60 ms

css

44 ms

css_c3yl3A7j4QkhieWcDczaPBaJeMluI5StW0zfYdCu61A.css

340 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Utica.edu, 6% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Utica.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Utica.edu main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 56.0 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 56.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 86.5 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Utica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 309 B

  • Original 30.2 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (34%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Utica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

utica.edu accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

utica.edu best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

utica.edu SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Utica.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 Utica.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

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