Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

lals.uic.edu

Latin American and Latino Studies | University of Illinois Chicago

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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LALS Program at UIC Latin American Studies Latino Studies Latin American and Latino Studies Xochitl Bada Maria de los Angeles Torres Jonathan Xavier Inda Andreas Feldman Ralph Cintron Cristian Roa Jul...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lals.uic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lals.uic.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.046

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lals.uic.edu

4660 ms

otSDKStub.js

44 ms

main.css

31 ms

theinhardt.css

73 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Lals.uic.edu, 9% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Lals.uic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Lals.uic.edu main page is 3.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 137.6 kB

  • Original 171.1 kB
  • After minification 152.9 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 18.2 kB, which is 11% 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 137.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Lals Uic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 70.8 kB

  • Original 499.8 kB
  • After minification 499.8 kB
  • After compression 429.1 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 70.8 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 30.8 kB

  • Original 360.8 kB
  • After minification 360.7 kB
  • After compression 330.0 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. Lals.uic.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (50%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lals Uic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lals.uic.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lals.uic.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lals.uic.edu SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lals.uic.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 Lals.uic.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 Lals Uic. 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: