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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    47% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

utc.edu

Choose UTC | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

3.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Utc.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

utc.edu performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.791

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

utc.edu

92 ms

www.utc.edu

111 ms

kickstrap.css

83 ms

dcsns_utc.css

56 ms

jquery.min.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Utc.edu, 12% (7 requests) were made to Blog.utc.edu and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (703 ms) belongs to the original domain Utc.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 525.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Utc.edu main page is 7.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 80.1 kB
  • After minification 75.1 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 65.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 7.0 MB
  • After minification 6.8 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. UTC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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 28.6 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 243.5 kB

  • Original 283.4 kB
  • After minification 236.6 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Utc.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 243.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (31%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UTC. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

utc.edu

utc.edu

92 ms

www.utc.edu

www.utc.edu

111 ms

kickstrap.css

kickstrap.css

83 ms

dcsns_utc.css

dcsns_utc.css

56 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

14 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

13 ms

jquery.fittext.js

jquery.fittext.js

55 ms

jquery.zoom.js

jquery.zoom.js

54 ms

main.js

main.js

63 ms

directedit.js

directedit.js

53 ms

jquery.social.stream.1.5.13.min.js

jquery.social.stream.1.5.13.min.js

155 ms

lightstream.js

lightstream.js

123 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

51 ms

css

css

84 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

83 ms

css

css

83 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

465 ms

Career-Fair-01-300x200.jpg

Career-Fair-01-300x200.jpg

392 ms

VDAY16logo-300x175.jpg

VDAY16logo-300x175.jpg

340 ms

wilkerson-gary-200x300.jpg

wilkerson-gary-200x300.jpg

331 ms

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engineering-showcase-2015-layla-sensory-wall-300x200.jpg

353 ms

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Paris-300x201.jpg

331 ms

womens_studies_graphic-300x257.jpg

womens_studies_graphic-300x257.jpg

349 ms

bigstock-Stack-Of-Books-70033240-300x199.jpg

bigstock-Stack-Of-Books-70033240-300x199.jpg

350 ms

web-wordmark-retina.png

web-wordmark-retina.png

313 ms

slider-template-instantdecisiondaymarch.jpg

slider-template-instantdecisiondaymarch.jpg

310 ms

choose-utc-slider.jpg

choose-utc-slider.jpg

365 ms

black-history-slider.jpg

black-history-slider.jpg

325 ms

slider-armsandman.jpg

slider-armsandman.jpg

324 ms

slider-artist-elkins.jpg

slider-artist-elkins.jpg

324 ms

slider-basketball.jpg

slider-basketball.jpg

340 ms

meghan-duggan-mercy-ships-slider.jpg

meghan-duggan-mercy-ships-slider.jpg

415 ms

slider-interiordesign.jpg

slider-interiordesign.jpg

410 ms

tedx-february-slider.jpg

tedx-february-slider.jpg

334 ms

swoosh.png

swoosh.png

333 ms

white-coat-otpt-featurette.jpg

white-coat-otpt-featurette.jpg

510 ms

challenger-crew-featurette.jpg

challenger-crew-featurette.jpg

703 ms

reed_frank_featurette.jpg

reed_frank_featurette.jpg

651 ms

featurette-mock-pres-debate-2016.jpg

featurette-mock-pres-debate-2016.jpg

703 ms

utc-crest-faciemus.png

utc-crest-faciemus.png

424 ms

campus-map-flat.png

campus-map-flat.png

514 ms

ut-icon-bw.png

ut-icon-bw.png

517 ms

tn-transfer-pathway-logo.png

tn-transfer-pathway-logo.png

518 ms

GoudyStM-Italic-webfont.woff

GoudyStM-Italic-webfont.woff

625 ms

GoudyStM-webfont.woff

GoudyStM-webfont.woff

610 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

260 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

43 ms

siteanalyze_67870429.js

siteanalyze_67870429.js

471 ms

facebook.php

facebook.php

607 ms

twitter.php

twitter.php

269 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

161 ms

collect

collect

86 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

92 ms

collect

collect

59 ms

image.aspx

image.aspx

50 ms

share.png

share.png

73 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

5 ms

hqdefault.jpg

hqdefault.jpg

92 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

64 ms

profile.png

profile.png

43 ms

Accessibility Review

utc.edu accessibility score

91

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

utc.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

utc.edu SEO score

86

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

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 Utc.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 Utc.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

utc.edu

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