Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

unlv.edu

UNLV | University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

182 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a premier, top tier metropolitan research university. Learn more about UNLV's 350 accredited undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unlv.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 182 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unlv.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.644

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.unlv.edu

182 ms

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59 ms

css_9KkQ01o2yEebuZ04kxcFdgiUdcBtxo0ju3PNutWOkC4.css

172 ms

css_MMlQyZT3foVoh_MxwjZHDOR21MSyhQS5El4rtvBufgY.css

324 ms

css_lhZ2r95cVv6XPZeCq2neqJ2WkJfOx4FGwB5NFslhk94.css

115 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Unlv.edu, 12% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cse.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) belongs to the original domain Unlv.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 658.1 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Unlv.edu main page is 1.8 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 35.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 124.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 951.4 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. Obviously, UNLV needs image optimization as it can save up to 124.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 253.3 kB

  • Original 415.0 kB
  • After minification 388.2 kB
  • After compression 161.7 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 253.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 245.2 kB

  • Original 307.5 kB
  • After minification 300.2 kB
  • After compression 62.3 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. Unlv.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 245.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (51%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UNLV. 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

unlv.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

unlv.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

unlv.edu SEO score

91

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 Unlv.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 Unlv.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 UNLV. 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: