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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sitstg.desire2learn.com

xSiTe - Learning Management System (LMS) of Singapore Institute of Technology

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

504 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sitstg.desire2learn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 504 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sitstg.desire2learn.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sitstg.desire2learn.com

504 ms

sitstg.desire2learn.com

1021 ms

login

258 ms

257 ms

wide.css

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Sitstg.desire2learn.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Hostedpages.brightspace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sitstg.desire2learn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

514.7 kB

After Optimization

488.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sitstg.desire2learn.com main page is 514.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 471.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 10.1 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.1 kB, which is 21% 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 8.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 471.8 kB
  • After minification 460.1 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. Sitstg Desire 2 Learn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.6 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 5.1 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Sitstg.desire2learn.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (11%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sitstg Desire 2 Learn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sitstg.desire2learn.com accessibility score

46

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sitstg.desire2learn.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

sitstg.desire2learn.com SEO score

91

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sitstg.desire2learn.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sitstg.desire2learn.com 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 Sitstg Desire 2 Learn. 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: