Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

financialaid.uc.edu

Student Financial Aid - About UC | University of Cincinnati

Page Load Speed

913 ms in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

567 ms

Page Rendered

243 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Financialaid.uc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 810 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

financialaid.uc.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,190 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financialaid.uc.edu

103 ms

css

26 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

5 ms

modernizr.min.js

38 ms

bootstrap.js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Financialaid.uc.edu, 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (207 ms) belongs to the original domain Financialaid.uc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 379.1 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

809.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Financialaid.uc.edu main page is 1.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 753.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 43.8 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 34.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 753.6 kB
  • After minification 710.0 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. Financial Aid UC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 123.9 kB

  • Original 183.8 kB
  • After minification 153.6 kB
  • After compression 59.9 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 123.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 177.4 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 167.2 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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. Financialaid.uc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (55%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financial Aid UC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

financialaid.uc.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

financialaid.uc.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

financialaid.uc.edu SEO score

84

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 Financialaid.uc.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 Financialaid.uc.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 Financial Aid UC. 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: