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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

degreesmagazine.ca

Spring/Summer 2024 | Degrees Magazine | University of Regina

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Degreesmagazine.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

degreesmagazine.ca performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.053

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

degreesmagazine.ca

205 ms

www.degreesmagazine.ca

279 ms

gtm.js

111 ms

photoswipe.css

49 ms

default-skin.css

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Degreesmagazine.ca, 8% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (936 ms) belongs to the original domain Degreesmagazine.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Degreesmagazine.ca main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 51.1 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 7.2 kB, which is 14% 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 42.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 64.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 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. Degrees Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 82.8 kB

  • Original 145.7 kB
  • After minification 145.7 kB
  • After compression 62.9 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 82.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 196.7 kB

  • Original 234.2 kB
  • After minification 226.4 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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. Degreesmagazine.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (37%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Degrees Magazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

degreesmagazine.ca accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

degreesmagazine.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

SEO Factors

degreesmagazine.ca SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Degreesmagazine.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 Degreesmagazine.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 description is not detected on the main page of Degrees Magazine. 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: