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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

news.ucf.edu

UCF Today – University of Central Florida News | Orlando, FL

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

Welcome to news.ucf.edu homepage info - get ready to check News UCF best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about news.ucf.edu

UCF Today provides news articles and events happening at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Central Florida, and around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.ucf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.ucf.edu performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

74/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.ucf.edu

95 ms

today.ucf.edu

926 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

32 ms

bar.css

59 ms

bootstrap.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.ucf.edu, 63% (32 requests) were made to Today.ucf.edu and 10% (5 requests) were made to Universityheader.ucf.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (926 ms) relates to the external source Today.ucf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 776.9 kB (68%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

363.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.ucf.edu main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 539.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 27.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 127.8 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. News UCF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 286.5 kB

  • Original 430.0 kB
  • After minification 393.4 kB
  • After compression 143.6 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 286.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 455.2 kB

  • Original 539.2 kB
  • After minification 491.2 kB
  • After compression 84.0 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. News.ucf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 455.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (64%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News UCF. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

news.ucf.edu

news.ucf.edu

95 ms

today.ucf.edu

today.ucf.edu

926 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

32 ms

bar.css

bar.css

59 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

85 ms

forms.css

forms.css

65 ms

webcom-base.css

webcom-base.css

69 ms

style.css

style.css

60 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.textFit.min.js

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69 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

69 ms

style-responsive.css

style-responsive.css

93 ms

university-header.js

university-header.js

68 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

92 ms

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webcom-base.js

92 ms

jquery.autoellipsis-1.0.10.min.js

jquery.autoellipsis-1.0.10.min.js

93 ms

jquery-cookie.js

jquery-cookie.js

93 ms

script.js

script.js

105 ms

ucf-mobile-menu.js

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109 ms

wp-embed.min.js

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111 ms

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55 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

57 ms

formsmain.css

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59 ms

readyclass.css

readyclass.css

75 ms

browsers.css

browsers.css

77 ms

rtl.css

rtl.css

82 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

351 ms

ga.js

ga.js

340 ms

bar-bootstrap.css

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47 ms

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gradient.png

48 ms

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49 ms

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65 ms

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62 ms

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64 ms

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103 ms

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25 ms

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40 ms

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53 ms

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109 ms

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37 ms

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32 ms

Accessibility Review

news.ucf.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

news.ucf.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

SEO Factors

news.ucf.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 News.ucf.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 News.ucf.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of News UCF. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: