Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

biology.unm.edu

Department of Biology | The University of New Mexico

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

429 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

180 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biology.unm.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 429 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

biology.unm.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

biology.unm.edu

429 ms

unmbio1.css

104 ms

p7EPM04.css

105 ms

p7EPMscripts.js

169 ms

p7ssm_06.css

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Biology.unm.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) belongs to the original domain Biology.unm.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 82.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

734.8 kB

After Optimization

652.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Biology.unm.edu main page is 734.8 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 657.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 16.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 657.4 kB
  • After minification 632.4 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. Biology Unm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 33.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Biology.unm.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (22%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Biology Unm. 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.

Accessibility Review

biology.unm.edu accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

biology.unm.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

SEO Factors

biology.unm.edu SEO score

74

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Biology.unm.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Biology.unm.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 Biology Unm. 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: