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ucla.edu

UCLA

Page Load Speed

26.9 sec in total

First Response

386 ms

Resources Loaded

12.2 sec

Page Rendered

14.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucla.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 386 ms and then it took 26.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

ucla.edu

386 ms

www.ucla.edu

957 ms

main.css

713 ms

responsive.css

710 ms

centennial-takeover.css

710 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ucla.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to 4393665.fls.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ucla.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 375.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ucla.edu main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 4.5 kB, which is 16% 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 22.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. UCLA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 173.2 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 297.5 kB
  • After compression 135.7 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 173.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 120.9 kB

  • Original 171.9 kB
  • After minification 150.7 kB
  • After compression 51.0 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. Ucla.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (42%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UCLA. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Ucla.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 Ucla.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 UCLA. 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: