Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

utsandiego.com

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Local News, Sports and Things to Do

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

808 ms

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

utsandiego.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ut San Diego content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about utsandiego.com

Sandiegouniontribune.com covers local news in San Diego County, CA, California and national news, sports, things to do and the best places to eat, business and the San Diego housing market.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Utsandiego.com page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 3 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

utsandiego.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,960 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

utsandiego.com

165 ms

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

108 ms

Core.min.90363475f21c120f4c4af80afb4b862e.gz.js

134 ms

sdutspot.js

152 ms

sdutspot.min.js

132 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Utsandiego.com, 80% (74 requests) were made to Ca-times.brightspotcdn.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Libs.platform.californiatimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (202 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Utsandiego.com main page is 6.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 597.9 kB

  • Original 697.7 kB
  • After minification 686.6 kB
  • After compression 99.8 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 597.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Ut San Diego images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 610.1 kB
  • After minification 610.1 kB
  • After compression 535.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 74.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 19 B

  • Original 15.1 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. Utsandiego.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (17%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

75

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ut San Diego. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

utsandiego.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

utsandiego.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

utsandiego.com SEO score

92

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

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 Utsandiego.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 Utsandiego.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ut San Diego. 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: