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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

are.ucdavis.edu

Home - Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Are.ucdavis.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

are.ucdavis.edu performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1121 ms

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461 ms

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464 ms

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67 ms

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439 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Are.ucdavis.edu, 91% (21 requests) were made to Arefiles.ucdavis.edu and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Are.ucdavis.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

393.7 kB

After Optimization

267.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Are.ucdavis.edu main page is 393.7 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 214.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 22.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 381 B

  • Original 214.1 kB
  • After minification 213.7 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. Are UC Davis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 114.0 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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 75.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 33.9 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. Are.ucdavis.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (27%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Are UC Davis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

1121 ms

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461 ms

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464 ms

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67 ms

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439 ms

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413 ms

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506 ms

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438 ms

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Accessibility Review

are.ucdavis.edu accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

are.ucdavis.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

are.ucdavis.edu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Are.ucdavis.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 Are.ucdavis.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

are.ucdavis.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Are UC Davis. 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: