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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

finaid.ucsf.edu

UCSF Student Financial Services | UCSF Student Financial Services

Page Load Speed

735 ms in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

351 ms

Page Rendered

210 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finaid.ucsf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 561 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finaid.ucsf.edu performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finaid.ucsf.edu

174 ms

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Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Finaid.ucsf.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (174 ms) belongs to the original domain Finaid.ucsf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 330.2 kB (47%)

Content Size

708.6 kB

After Optimization

378.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Finaid.ucsf.edu main page is 708.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 280.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 33.0 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 25.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 280.1 kB
  • After minification 268.3 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. Finaid UCSF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 194.2 kB

  • Original 271.7 kB
  • After minification 238.8 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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 194.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 98.8 kB

  • Original 122.7 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Finaid.ucsf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Finaid UCSF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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174 ms

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Accessibility Review

finaid.ucsf.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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

finaid.ucsf.edu best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

finaid.ucsf.edu SEO score

79

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Finaid.ucsf.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 Finaid.ucsf.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

finaid.ucsf.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Finaid UCSF. 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: