Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

ucarconnect.ucar.edu

Live | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

258 ms

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About Website

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UCARConnect promotes discovery and access to educational resources from UCAR and provides access to broadcasted UCAR seminars, workshops, and colloquia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucarconnect.ucar.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ucarconnect.ucar.edu performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.209

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucarconnect.ucar.edu

210 ms

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48 ms

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93 ms

css_lptnt8LM5Q0x0h1ai6mPBZOfpwUrTLAZBn9F5tTVpZU.css

94 ms

css_C9i8bynpl6pYUfmW3xbmp6GABNYFhGwSfYeADR6x-eA.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Ucarconnect.ucar.edu, 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) relates to the external source Www2.ucar.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 734.9 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

671.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ucarconnect.ucar.edu main page is 1.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 723.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 78.4 kB

  • Original 104.9 kB
  • After minification 100.2 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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 78.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 426.9 kB
  • After minification 402.9 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. Ucarconnect Ucar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 506.0 kB

  • Original 723.4 kB
  • After minification 637.9 kB
  • After compression 217.3 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 506.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 126.4 kB

  • Original 151.4 kB
  • After minification 147.9 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Ucarconnect.ucar.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 126.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (39%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ucarconnect Ucar. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ucarconnect.ucar.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Best Practices

ucarconnect.ucar.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ucarconnect.ucar.edu SEO score

84

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 Ucarconnect.ucar.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 Ucarconnect.ucar.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 Ucarconnect Ucar. 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: