Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% 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

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

leadership.uchicago.edu

Center for Leadership and Involvement | The University of Chicago

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

588 ms

Page Rendered

492 ms

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About Website

Welcome to leadership.uchicago.edu homepage info - get ready to check Leadership U Chicago best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about leadership.uchicago.edu

The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, culturally rich and ethnically diverse coeducational research university located in Hyde Park, Chicago.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leadership.uchicago.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

leadership.uchicago.edu performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.709

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

leadership.uchicago.edu

48 ms

proximanova.css

136 ms

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11 ms

css_MjpJy_J2i_YLh95s06QIrAHr45W8cBl49YrU79D87oM.css

12 ms

css_MnXiytJtb186Ydycnpwpw34cuUsHaKc80ey5LiQXhSY.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Leadership.uchicago.edu, 10% (4 requests) were made to Identity.uchicago.edu and 10% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (200 ms) relates to the external source Identity.uchicago.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (55%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

812.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Leadership.uchicago.edu main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 116.1 kB

  • Original 152.4 kB
  • After minification 147.8 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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. 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 116.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 528.1 kB
  • After minification 428.3 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. Obviously, Leadership U Chicago needs image optimization as it can save up to 99.7 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 681.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 981.0 kB
  • After compression 320.9 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 681.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 103.9 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 128.2 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Leadership.uchicago.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 103.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (51%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leadership 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

leadership.uchicago.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

leadership.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

leadership.uchicago.edu SEO score

89

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 Leadership.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 Leadership.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 Leadership 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: