Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% 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

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

online.ucf.edu

Online Degrees and Programs | Accredited and Fully Online | UCF Online

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

408 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.ucf.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

online.ucf.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

online.ucf.edu

1598 ms

university-header.js

72 ms

css

29 ms

font-awesome.min.css

14 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Online.ucf.edu, 4% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Image.providesupport.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Online.ucf.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (37%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Online.ucf.edu main page is 5.0 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. 75% 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

-72%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. 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 37.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Online UCF images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 528.5 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 1.3 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 457.8 kB

  • Original 553.1 kB
  • After minification 537.2 kB
  • After compression 95.3 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. Online.ucf.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 457.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (81%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online 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 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

online.ucf.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

online.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

online.ucf.edu SEO score

96

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 Online.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 Online.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

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