Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

writingcenter.uci.edu

Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication | CEWC

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

886 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

159 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writingcenter.uci.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 886 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writingcenter.uci.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.547

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.writingcenter.uci.edu

886 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

203 ms

meteor-slides.css

136 ms

style.css

353 ms

responsive.css

137 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Writingcenter.uci.edu, 8% (4 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Writingcenter.uci.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 710.6 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

683.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Writingcenter.uci.edu main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 505.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 23.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 19.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 445.0 kB
  • After minification 439.6 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. Writing Center Uci images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 336.8 kB

  • Original 505.0 kB
  • After minification 477.0 kB
  • After compression 168.2 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 336.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 349.3 kB

  • Original 418.7 kB
  • After minification 376.1 kB
  • After compression 69.5 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. Writingcenter.uci.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (67%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Writing Center Uci. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writingcenter.uci.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

writingcenter.uci.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

writingcenter.uci.edu SEO score

81

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 Writingcenter.uci.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 Writingcenter.uci.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 Writing Center Uci. 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: