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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

uab.edu

Home - The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

758 ms

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Uab content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about uab.edu

UAB is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uab.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 944 ms 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

uab.edu performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.uab.edu

100 ms

26 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

64 ms

otSDKStub.js

83 ms

pqq8aix.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Uab.edu, 18% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Images.weserv.nl. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (178 ms) belongs to the original domain Uab.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 241.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Uab.edu main page is 3.4 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 118.8 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 13.9 kB, which is 12% 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 99.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 101.4 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Uab images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 195.0 kB
  • After minification 194.5 kB
  • After compression 177.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 104.4 kB
  • After compression 94.8 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. Uab.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (65%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uab. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.uab.edu

www.uab.edu

100 ms

26 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

64 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

83 ms

pqq8aix.css

pqq8aix.css

28 ms

uikit.min.css

uikit.min.css

42 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

63 ms

uikit-icons.min.js

uikit-icons.min.js

66 ms

content.css

content.css

22 ms

jcemediabox.min.css

jcemediabox.min.css

40 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

72 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

58 ms

bootstrap-extended.css

bootstrap-extended.css

62 ms

template.css

template.css

60 ms

site.wk.css

site.wk.css

75 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

61 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

76 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

77 ms

caption.js

caption.js

76 ms

jcemediabox.min.js

jcemediabox.min.js

76 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

96 ms

maps.js

maps.js

96 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

160 ms

uikit-icons.min.js

uikit-icons.min.js

96 ms

icomoon.css

icomoon.css

96 ms

style.css

style.css

97 ms

respo.css

respo.css

157 ms

bootstrap-plus.css

bootstrap-plus.css

158 ms

linear.css

linear.css

158 ms

site_specific.css

site_specific.css

157 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

158 ms

site_scripts.js

site_scripts.js

174 ms

1243b65314.js

1243b65314.js

45 ms

view

view

64 ms

view

view

68 ms

player.js

player.js

59 ms

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660b8afe-7011-433e-b4af-a7229d2202c5.json

74 ms

p.css

p.css

19 ms

location

location

136 ms

editor.css

editor.css

17 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

94 ms

all.css

all.css

92 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

88 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

81 ms

images.weserv.nl

images.weserv.nl

88 ms

sitelogo.jpg

sitelogo.jpg

71 ms

deadline-extended-to-june-1.jpg

deadline-extended-to-june-1.jpg

174 ms

congratulations-class-of-2024.jpg

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178 ms

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175 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

uab.edu accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

uab.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

uab.edu SEO score

81

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 Uab.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 Uab.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

uab.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Uab. 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: