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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

fst.athabascau.ca

Home | Faculty of Science and Technology | Athabasca University

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

628 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fst.athabascau.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 2.5 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

fst.athabascau.ca performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,340 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fst.athabascau.ca

9 ms

index.html

551 ms

css2

41 ms

critical-secondary.css

348 ms

AU-WP-RESTAPI-min.js

240 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fst.athabascau.ca, 19% (5 requests) were made to Athabascau.ca and 19% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (743 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.osano.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

266.3 kB

After Optimization

241.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fst.athabascau.ca main page is 266.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 221.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 23.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Fst Athabasca U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 221.1 kB
  • After minification 221.1 kB
  • After compression 219.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Fst.athabascau.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (78%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fst Athabasca U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fst.athabascau.ca

fst.athabascau.ca

9 ms

index.html

index.html

551 ms

css2

css2

41 ms

critical-secondary.css

critical-secondary.css

348 ms

AU-WP-RESTAPI-min.js

AU-WP-RESTAPI-min.js

240 ms

jquery.lazy.min.js

jquery.lazy.min.js

33 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

44 ms

load-scripts.js

load-scripts.js

212 ms

osano.js

osano.js

282 ms

osano.js

osano.js

743 ms

api.js

api.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

45 ms

global.js

global.js

452 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

16 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

49 ms

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98 ms

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134 ms

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135 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

30 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

64 ms

fallback

fallback

24 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

5 ms

css

css

16 ms

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logo_48.png

4 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

fst.athabascau.ca accessibility score

92

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

fst.athabascau.ca SEO score

92

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 Fst.athabascau.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 Fst.athabascau.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

fst.athabascau.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Fst Athabasca U. 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: