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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

learn.viu.ca

VIULearn

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

782 ms

Page Rendered

286 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Learn.viu.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

learn.viu.ca performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

learn.viu.ca

55 ms

learn.viu.ca

70 ms

login

29 ms

28 ms

line-icons.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Learn.viu.ca, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Hostedpages.brightspace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (268 ms) belongs to the original domain Learn.viu.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Learn.viu.ca main page is 4.9 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 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 16.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 10.8 kB, which is 39% 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 23.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 249.3 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Learn Viu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 39.1 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 94.4 kB
  • After compression 58.3 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 39.1 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 194.8 kB
  • After minification 194.7 kB
  • After compression 111.2 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. Learn.viu.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.6 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (64%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Learn Viu. 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

learn.viu.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

learn.viu.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

learn.viu.ca SEO score

76

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

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 Learn.viu.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 Learn.viu.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 Learn Viu. 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: