Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

uni.edu

University of Northern Iowa

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

uni.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to uni.edu homepage info - get ready to check Uni best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about uni.edu

The University of Northern Iowa is a top public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa, offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in business, health, education, technology, science, and art.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uni.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uni.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uni.edu

172 ms

css_sSAe9sKteLQpXhdusjdSLXOzkfT5idajD-Lm1ejLyi4.css

106 ms

css_vZ_wrMQ9Og-YPPxa1q4us3N7DsZMJa-14jShHgRoRNo.css

108 ms

css_8a0OdnES0mk_AakLJbiL1WUVrDsIbKzeVh6xp7OGCVI.css

106 ms

css_tJkgfe4pUhVCB92OQGqUsmgXgaYxC2My0v-VQAD-msQ.css

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Uni.edu, 18% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 3% (3 requests) were made to I.simpli.fi. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Uni.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Uni.edu main page is 7.5 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. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 51.9 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 51.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Obviously, Uni needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 422.9 kB

  • Original 576.0 kB
  • After minification 473.8 kB
  • After compression 153.0 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 422.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 159.1 kB
  • After minification 151.0 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Uni.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (50%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Uni. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uni.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

uni.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

uni.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Uni.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 Uni.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 Uni. 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: