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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

kicp.uchicago.edu

Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics | The University of Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

778 ms

Page Rendered

378 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kicp U Chicago content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kicp.uchicago.edu

The KICP’s mission is to cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries to address key scientific issues at the interface of astrophysics/cosmology and fundamental physics

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kicp.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kicp.uchicago.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,250 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.717

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kicp.uchicago.edu

185 ms

kicp.uchicago.edu

89 ms

kavlicosmo.uchicago.edu

48 ms

js

94 ms

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kicp.uchicago.edu, 54% (19 requests) were made to D3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net and 14% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.fonts.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (255 ms) relates to the external source Kit.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (22%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kicp.uchicago.edu main page is 6.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 19.5 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 4.2 kB, which is 18% 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 18.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 4.5 MB

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. Obviously, Kicp U Chicago needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 168.2 kB
  • After minification 168.2 kB
  • After compression 123.7 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 44.5 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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. Kicp.uchicago.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (26%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kicp 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kicp.uchicago.edu

kicp.uchicago.edu

185 ms

kicp.uchicago.edu

kicp.uchicago.edu

89 ms

kavlicosmo.uchicago.edu

kavlicosmo.uchicago.edu

48 ms

js

js

94 ms

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

4a74b7d6-cd9a-4ec5-b629-35c1dbbfe199.css

86 ms

site.css

site.css

38 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

68 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

69 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

73 ms

8070e183dd.js

8070e183dd.js

255 ms

core-min.js

core-min.js

63 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

233 ms

shield.svg

shield.svg

153 ms

custom_kicp.svg

custom_kicp.svg

136 ms

front-2024-ARENA.jpg

front-2024-ARENA.jpg

145 ms

KICP_2024-1.jpg

KICP_2024-1.jpg

146 ms

KICP_2024.jpg

KICP_2024.jpg

138 ms

KICP_2024-2.jpg

KICP_2024-2.jpg

146 ms

KICP_2024-3.jpg

KICP_2024-3.jpg

162 ms

KICP_2024-4.jpg

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147 ms

transparent.gif

transparent.gif

144 ms

uchicago_wordmark_maroon-transparent.svg

uchicago_wordmark_maroon-transparent.svg

163 ms

GothamLight_normal_normal.woff

GothamLight_normal_normal.woff

129 ms

GothamBook_normal_normal.woff

GothamBook_normal_normal.woff

178 ms

ss-symbolicons-block.woff

ss-symbolicons-block.woff

146 ms

GothamExtraLight_normal_normal.woff

GothamExtraLight_normal_normal.woff

161 ms

GothamMedium_normal_normal.woff

GothamMedium_normal_normal.woff

162 ms

prev.png

prev.png

57 ms

next.png

next.png

71 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

72 ms

close.png

close.png

60 ms

Dan-Hooper-150x150.jpg

Dan-Hooper-150x150.jpg

67 ms

Elyssa_Brooks_3.png

Elyssa_Brooks_3.png

109 ms

2024-06-05-news-front.jpg

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83 ms

events-min.js

events-min.js

5 ms

Accessibility Review

kicp.uchicago.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

kicp.uchicago.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kicp.uchicago.edu SEO score

91

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

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 Kicp.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 Kicp.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

kicp.uchicago.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kicp 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: