Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ches.ua.edu

The College of Human Environmental Sciences - Home

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

ches.ua.edu screenshot

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Official Website of The College of Human Environmental Sciences at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Alabama

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ches.ua.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ches.ua.edu performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ches.ua.edu

118 ms

ches.ua.edu

422 ms

style.min.css

227 ms

css

35 ms

pzq0leg.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Ches.ua.edu, 35% (18 requests) were made to Cheswpms01.ua.edu and 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Cheswpms01.ua.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 558.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

7.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ches.ua.edu main page is 7.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 7.9 kB, which is 18% 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 35.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 288.5 kB

  • Original 7.4 MB
  • After minification 7.1 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. Ches Ua images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 15.9 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 16.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 218.2 kB

  • Original 253.1 kB
  • After minification 211.6 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. Ches.ua.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (23%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ches Ua. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ches.ua.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ches.ua.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ches.ua.edu SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ches.ua.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 Ches.ua.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 Ches Ua. 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: