Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

ocics.ca

www.scs.carleton.ca | The School of Computer Science

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

661 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ocics content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ocics.ca

The School of Computer Science at Carleton University offering both Undergraduate and Graduate level Education

Visit ocics.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Ocics.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 661 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ocics.ca performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.ocics.ca

661 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

63 ms

css_kaR8VM0ilFCoJHn_WJuHXQQBlw4UWRebTyLvP48GBXg.css

90 ms

css__oqs_WTkXr1ITlmsgnxD_dDcCV-SQbZ8S9f3RZ1m6jw.css

92 ms

css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Ocics.ca, 10% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (661 ms) belongs to the original domain Ocics.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 243.1 kB (72%)

Content Size

338.2 kB

After Optimization

95.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ocics.ca main page is 338.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 208.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 11.3 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 8.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 103 B

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 9.7 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. Ocics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 141.8 kB

  • Original 208.5 kB
  • After minification 156.2 kB
  • After compression 66.7 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 141.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 92.7 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. Ocics.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (63%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ocics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ocics.ca accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

ocics.ca 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

ocics.ca SEO score

58

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

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 Ocics.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 Ocics.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 Ocics. 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: