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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ulsystem.edu

University of Louisiana System | Louisiana's Largest Higher Education System

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

733 ms

Page Rendered

552 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ulsystem.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 221 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

ulsystem.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ulsystem.edu

221 ms

css

68 ms

js

71 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

17 ms

style.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Ulsystem.edu, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (234 ms) belongs to the original domain Ulsystem.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.8 kB (1%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ulsystem.edu main page is 8.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 36.5 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 40.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 36.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 297 B

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Ul System images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 196.3 kB
  • After minification 196.3 kB
  • After compression 192.9 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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. Ulsystem.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (39%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ul System. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.ulsystem.edu

www.ulsystem.edu

221 ms

css

css

68 ms

js

js

71 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

17 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

33 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

31 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

48 ms

css

css

97 ms

style.css

style.css

36 ms

modernizr-3.3.1.min.js

modernizr-3.3.1.min.js

37 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

36 ms

jquery.plugins.js

jquery.plugins.js

46 ms

jquery.custom.js

jquery.custom.js

44 ms

header-logo.png

header-logo.png

168 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

132 ms

phone-white.svg

phone-white.svg

124 ms

mail-white.svg

mail-white.svg

125 ms

facebook-white.svg

facebook-white.svg

125 ms

twitter-white.svg

twitter-white.svg

126 ms

linkedin-white.svg

linkedin-white.svg

126 ms

search-white.svg

search-white.svg

143 ms

board-members.jpg

board-members.jpg

142 ms

students.jpg

students.jpg

143 ms

faculty-and-staff.jpg

faculty-and-staff.jpg

142 ms

policy-makers.jpg

policy-makers.jpg

168 ms

ULS-Hero-Video-Still.png

ULS-Hero-Video-Still.png

174 ms

Untitled-design-2.png

Untitled-design-2.png

169 ms

Default-Image.png

Default-Image.png

199 ms

2023-media-header-nsu-150x150.jpg

2023-media-header-nsu-150x150.jpg

169 ms

Grambling.png

Grambling.png

167 ms

LATech.png

LATech.png

209 ms

McNeese.png

McNeese.png

187 ms

nicholls-2.png

nicholls-2.png

187 ms

Northwestern.png

Northwestern.png

188 ms

slu-web-1.png

slu-web-1.png

188 ms

ULL.png

ULL.png

189 ms

ULM-e1580495857296.png

ULM-e1580495857296.png

234 ms

UNO.png

UNO.png

209 ms

About-UL-System.jpg

About-UL-System.jpg

202 ms

iStock-639359406-1-e1510859323694.jpg

iStock-639359406-1-e1510859323694.jpg

206 ms

ULL_web_1-1.jpg

ULL_web_1-1.jpg

219 ms

UNO-graduation-celebration.jpg

UNO-graduation-celebration.jpg

223 ms

UL-System-Logo-Color.svg

UL-System-Logo-Color.svg

223 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

139 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

145 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

145 ms

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ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyWyosBO5Xk.ttf

46 ms

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyXsosBO5Xk.ttf

ieVo2ZhZI2eCN5jzbjEETS9weq8-_d6T_POl0fRJeyXsosBO5Xk.ttf

46 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

102 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

js

js

69 ms

Accessibility Review

ulsystem.edu accessibility score

85

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

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

ulsystem.edu best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ulsystem.edu SEO score

92

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

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 Ulsystem.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 Ulsystem.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

ulsystem.edu

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