Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

collegestudentalliance.ca

College Student Alliance

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

648 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegestudentalliance.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 648 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegestudentalliance.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegestudentalliance.ca

648 ms

bootstrap.css

20 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

13 ms

animate.css

45 ms

animations.css

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Collegestudentalliance.ca, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (648 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegestudentalliance.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (26%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Collegestudentalliance.ca main page is 6.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 68.5 kB

  • Original 81.6 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 68.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 502.7 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.2 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, College Student Alliance needs image optimization as it can save up to 502.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 332.9 kB

  • Original 477.3 kB
  • After minification 413.8 kB
  • After compression 144.5 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 332.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 639.8 kB

  • Original 694.1 kB
  • After minification 533.1 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Collegestudentalliance.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 639.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (56%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Student Alliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegestudentalliance.ca accessibility score

89

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

collegestudentalliance.ca 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

collegestudentalliance.ca SEO score

90

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 Collegestudentalliance.ca 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 Collegestudentalliance.ca 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 data is detected on the main page of College Student Alliance. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: