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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

alaska.edu

UA System | University of Alaska System

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

362 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

alaska.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alaska.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 362 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alaska.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alaska.edu

362 ms

alaska.edu

442 ms

www.alaska.edu

562 ms

403 ms

js

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Alaska.edu, 9% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Alaska.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 747.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alaska.edu main page is 6.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 61.8 kB
  • After minification 45.8 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 16.0 kB, which is 26% 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 49.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 561.4 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Alaska images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 252.2 kB
  • After minification 251.7 kB
  • After compression 208.0 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 44.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 92.8 kB

  • Original 105.7 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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. Alaska.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alaska. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alaska.edu

alaska.edu

362 ms

alaska.edu

alaska.edu

442 ms

www.alaska.edu

www.alaska.edu

562 ms

403 ms

js

js

127 ms

cse.js

cse.js

66 ms

hotjar-695052.js

hotjar-695052.js

138 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

69 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

48 ms

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124 ms

css

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62 ms

global.css

global.css

400 ms

sw.css

sw.css

531 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

125 ms

style.css

style.css

434 ms

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60 ms

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61 ms

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default.css

64 ms

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168 ms

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188 ms

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224 ms

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180 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

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126 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

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64 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

334 ms

initialization.js

initialization.js

227 ms

global.js

global.js

332 ms

direct-edit.js

direct-edit.js

341 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

70 ms

js

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50 ms

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collect

71 ms

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collect

68 ms

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197 ms

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172 ms

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114 ms

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sw-logo.svg

224 ms

UA_1600x500_0006_Anthem.jpg

UA_1600x500_0006_Anthem.jpg

668 ms

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658 ms

UA_1600x500_0000_Native.jpg

UA_1600x500_0000_Native.jpg

625 ms

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UA_1600x500_0004_Circle%20of%20Giving.jpg

854 ms

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985 ms

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659 ms

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737 ms

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769 ms

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769 ms

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777 ms

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847 ms

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877 ms

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879 ms

Alaska%20capitol.jpg

Alaska%20capitol.jpg

888 ms

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ua%20scholars%20fb%20post.jpg

1066 ms

1975.jpg

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963 ms

PWSC.png

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987 ms

Higgins%20Champion%20for%20Change.png

Higgins%20Champion%20for%20Change.png

989 ms

AlaskaMapUpdate-2019.png

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1000 ms

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1073 ms

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1094 ms

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77 ms

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96 ms

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113 ms

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118 ms

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60 ms

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42 ms

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29 ms

Accessibility Review

alaska.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

alaska.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alaska.edu SEO score

91

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 Alaska.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 Alaska.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

alaska.edu

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