Access met.ubc.ca. Home Page | UBC Master of Educational Technology (MET)

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,580 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.135

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

met.ubc.ca

553 ms

ubc-clf-full-bw.min.css

22 ms

subpage-navigation-base.css

80 ms

flexslider.css

159 ms

style.min.css

300 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Met.ubc.ca, 10% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.ubc.ca and 10% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Educ-met-site.sites.olt.ubc.ca.

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Met.ubc.ca main page is 2.1 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

Original 56.1 kB
After minification 52.7 kB
After compression 12.1 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. 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 44.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 139.0 kB

Original 1.6 MB
After minification 1.5 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. MET UBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

Original 257.3 kB
After minification 257.3 kB
After compression 221.9 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 35.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

Original 124.0 kB
After minification 124.0 kB
After compression 122.3 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. Met.ubc.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MET UBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.