Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

unl.edu

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

591 ms

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About Website

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

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is the flagship public research university in Nebraska, and is a member of the Big Ten Conference. Home of the Huskers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unl.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 2.8 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

unl.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.049

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unl.edu

112 ms

www.unl.edu

569 ms

fonts.css

445 ms

all.css

225 ms

all.js

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Unl.edu, 20% (12 requests) were made to Unlcms.unl.edu and 12% (7 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (798 ms) relates to the external source News.unl.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 880.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Unl.edu main page is 3.2 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 66.0 kB

  • Original 80.3 kB
  • After minification 70.2 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 10.1 kB, which is 13% 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 66.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Unl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 367.5 kB

  • Original 551.2 kB
  • After minification 508.3 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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 367.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 428.6 kB

  • Original 819.3 kB
  • After minification 795.4 kB
  • After compression 390.8 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. Unl.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 428.6 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (44%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unl. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

unl.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

unl.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

unl.edu SEO score

93

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

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 Unl.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 Unl.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 Unl. 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: