Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu

College Admissions at the University of Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

567 ms

Page Rendered

392 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 959 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu

111 ms

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124 ms

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44 ms

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48 ms

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41 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu, 10% (4 requests) were made to Identity.uchicago.edu and 7% (3 requests) were made to Uchicago.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (183 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.8 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

823.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu main page is 1.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 674.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 594.6 kB
  • After minification 583.0 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. College Admissions U Chicago images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 480.3 kB

  • Original 674.7 kB
  • After minification 641.6 kB
  • After compression 194.4 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 480.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 144.9 kB

  • Original 183.2 kB
  • After minification 179.7 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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. Collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 144.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (39%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Admissions U Chicago. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegeadmissions.uchicago.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

Best Practices

collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu SEO score

90

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

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 Collegeadmissions.uchicago.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 Collegeadmissions.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 College Admissions U Chicago. 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: