Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu

UChicago Alumni & Friends

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu

102 ms

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu

172 ms

fonts.css

202 ms

ss-social-regular.css

33 ms

system.base.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu, 3% (2 requests) were made to Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 996.0 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu main page is 2.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.0 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. 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 49.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Alumni And Friends UChicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 305.5 kB

  • Original 398.3 kB
  • After minification 260.4 kB
  • After compression 92.8 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 305.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 602.2 kB

  • Original 652.9 kB
  • After minification 287.2 kB
  • After compression 50.8 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. Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 602.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (68%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alumni And Friends UChicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu accessibility score

89

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alumniandfriends.uchicago.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alumniandfriends.uchicago.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Alumniandfriends.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 Alumni And Friends UChicago. 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: