Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% 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

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

convocation.uchicago.edu

Convocation | The University of Chicago

Page Load Speed

721 ms in total

First Response

53 ms

Resources Loaded

501 ms

Page Rendered

167 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Convocation.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 53 ms and then it took 668 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

convocation.uchicago.edu performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

convocation.uchicago.edu

53 ms

proximanova.css

138 ms

css_kShW4RPmRstZ3SpIC-ZvVGNFVAi0WEMuCnI0ZkYIaFw.css

11 ms

css_MjpJy_J2i_YLh95s06QIrAHr45W8cBl49YrU79D87oM.css

15 ms

css_MnXiytJtb186Ydycnpwpw34cuUsHaKc80ey5LiQXhSY.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Convocation.uchicago.edu, 11% (4 requests) were made to Identity.uchicago.edu and 11% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (155 ms) relates to the external source Identity.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 899.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

736.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Convocation.uchicago.edu main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 110.3 kB

  • Original 143.5 kB
  • After minification 139.7 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 110.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 359.8 kB
  • After minification 355.8 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. Convocation U Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 681.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 980.9 kB
  • After compression 320.8 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 681.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 128.2 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Convocation.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (53%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Convocation U Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

convocation.uchicago.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

convocation.uchicago.edu best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

convocation.uchicago.edu SEO score

87

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 Convocation.uchicago.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 Convocation.uchicago.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 Convocation U Chicago. 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: