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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

engineering.virginia.edu

Home page | University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

471 ms

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineering.virginia.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 2.6 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

engineering.virginia.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineering.virginia.edu

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27 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Engineering.virginia.edu, 26% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to P.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (168 ms) belongs to the original domain Engineering.virginia.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

552.8 kB

After Optimization

429.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Engineering.virginia.edu main page is 552.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 262.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 123.6 kB

  • Original 141.4 kB
  • After minification 124.8 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.5 kB, which is 12% 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 123.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 262.8 kB
  • After minification 262.8 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. Engineering Virginia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 89.7 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 89.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 118 B

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 58.9 kB
  • After compression 58.8 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. Engineering.virginia.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (17%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineering Virginia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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22 ms

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11 ms

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12 ms

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81 ms

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27 ms

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Accessibility Review

engineering.virginia.edu accessibility score

86

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-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

engineering.virginia.edu 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

SEO Factors

engineering.virginia.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 Engineering.virginia.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 Engineering.virginia.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

engineering.virginia.edu

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