Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

Page Load Speed

840 ms in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

590 ms

Page Rendered

203 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentlife.umbc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 793 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentlife.umbc.edu performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentlife.umbc.edu

47 ms

osl.umbc.edu

156 ms

bootstrap.min.css

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

26 ms

slick.min.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentlife.umbc.edu, 37% (14 requests) were made to Osl.umbc.edu and 26% (10 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (219 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

677.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Studentlife.umbc.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 573.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 30.5 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 6.5 kB, which is 21% 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 25.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 573.2 kB
  • After minification 559.4 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. Studentlife Umbc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 182.0 kB
  • After minification 178.9 kB
  • After compression 62.1 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 119.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 247.4 kB

  • Original 297.7 kB
  • After minification 270.0 kB
  • After compression 50.4 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. Studentlife.umbc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 247.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Studentlife Umbc. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

studentlife.umbc.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

studentlife.umbc.edu best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

studentlife.umbc.edu SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Studentlife.umbc.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Studentlife.umbc.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 Studentlife Umbc. 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: