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usf.edu

Welcome to the University of South Florida | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee, FL

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

694 ms

About Website

Visit usf.edu now to see the best up-to-date Usf content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about usf.edu

The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student success serving Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Usf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

usf.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

usf.edu

89 ms

www.usf.edu

100 ms

www.usf.edu

71 ms

gtm.js

201 ms

css2

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Usf.edu, 13% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 13% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (739 ms) belongs to the original domain Usf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 983.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Usf.edu main page is 2.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 82.8 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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 64.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 781.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Usf needs image optimization as it can save up to 781.9 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 406.6 kB
  • After minification 380.0 kB
  • After compression 304.0 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 102.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 97.5 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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. Usf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.1 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Usf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

usf.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 Usf.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 Usf.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 Usf. 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: