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cit.ucsf.edu

Previous CIT Site Retired | UCSF Library

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

487 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cit.ucsf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 487 ms and then it took 3.3 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

cit.ucsf.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cit.ucsf.edu

487 ms

retired

310 ms

retired

910 ms

css_bf69680392040671689b74e333efb8bf.css

164 ms

js_c4cf6f1ca42079e36e0729ff1f7d2111.js

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cit.ucsf.edu, 46% (11 requests) were made to Library.ucsf.edu and 13% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (910 ms) relates to the external source Library.ucsf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 673.2 kB (71%)

Content Size

951.9 kB

After Optimization

278.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Cit.ucsf.edu main page is 951.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 883.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 25.4 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 18.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 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. CIT UCSF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 654.8 kB

  • Original 883.6 kB
  • After minification 883.3 kB
  • After compression 228.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 654.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 41.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CIT UCSF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cit.ucsf.edu SEO score

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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 Cit.ucsf.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 Cit.ucsf.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 CIT UCSF. 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: