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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

utdallas.edu

The University of Texas at Dallas

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

64 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

937 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Utdallas.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 64 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

utdallas.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.453

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

utdallas.edu

64 ms

www.utdallas.edu

126 ms

fontello.css

38 ms

all.min.css

62 ms

style-coblocks-extensions.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Utdallas.edu, 15% (16 requests) were made to Bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (358 ms) relates to the external source Bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 268.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Utdallas.edu main page is 3.7 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. 85% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 153.2 kB

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 191.1 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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 153.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Ut Dallas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 182.4 kB
  • After minification 182.3 kB
  • After compression 137.3 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 45.0 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 178.6 kB
  • After minification 178.6 kB
  • After compression 141.0 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. Utdallas.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (69%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ut Dallas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

utdallas.edu accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

utdallas.edu best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

utdallas.edu SEO score

100

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

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 Utdallas.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 Utdallas.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 data is detected on the main page of Ut Dallas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: