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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

canadian-universities.net

Canadian Universities, Colleges, Higher Education and Employment in Canada

Page Load Speed

605 ms in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

339 ms

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

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A guide to Canadian universities, community colleges and career colleges. Includes profiles of universities and colleges in Canada along with their available certificate, undergraduate and graduate pr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadian-universities.net page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 518 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canadian-universities.net performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canadian-universities.net

87 ms

styles2009.css

16 ms

canadian-universities4.jpg

98 ms

like.php

113 ms

brand

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Canadian-universities.net, 6% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (118 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.6 kB (48%)

Content Size

335.7 kB

After Optimization

175.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canadian-universities.net main page is 335.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 219.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 39.3 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 33.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 207 B

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 75.4 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. Canadian Universities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 127.2 kB

  • Original 219.2 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 92.0 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 127.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Canadian-universities.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (12%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canadian Universities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

canadian-universities.net

canadian-universities.net

87 ms

styles2009.css

styles2009.css

16 ms

canadian-universities4.jpg

canadian-universities4.jpg

98 ms

like.php

like.php

113 ms

brand

brand

30 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

68 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

14 ms

news-scholarships.jpg

news-scholarships.jpg

20 ms

news-libraries.jpg

news-libraries.jpg

37 ms

news-residence.jpg

news-residence.jpg

37 ms

news-social-media.jpg

news-social-media.jpg

36 ms

section-university1.jpg

section-university1.jpg

36 ms

section-college1.jpg

section-college1.jpg

38 ms

section-world-university1.jpg

section-world-university1.jpg

38 ms

section-career-college1.jpg

section-career-college1.jpg

38 ms

section-undergraduate-programs1.jpg

section-undergraduate-programs1.jpg

38 ms

section-careercollege-programs1.jpg

section-careercollege-programs1.jpg

72 ms

section-graduate-programs1.jpg

section-graduate-programs1.jpg

73 ms

section-mba1.jpg

section-mba1.jpg

74 ms

section-carpentry1.jpg

section-carpentry1.jpg

73 ms

section-law1.jpg

section-law1.jpg

72 ms

section-crime-fire1.jpg

section-crime-fire1.jpg

74 ms

section-joblocation1.jpg

section-joblocation1.jpg

75 ms

section-orgprofile1.jpg

section-orgprofile1.jpg

76 ms

section-engineering1.jpg

section-engineering1.jpg

76 ms

section-government1.jpg

section-government1.jpg

76 ms

section-jobpost1.jpg

section-jobpost1.jpg

76 ms

section-volunteer1.jpg

section-volunteer1.jpg

81 ms

section-nursing1.jpg

section-nursing1.jpg

81 ms

section-student1.jpg

section-student1.jpg

90 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

17 ms

branding.png

branding.png

46 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

118 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

8 ms

w9py8-RGams.js

w9py8-RGams.js

19 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

14 ms

Accessibility Review

canadian-universities.net accessibility score

67

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

canadian-universities.net best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

canadian-universities.net SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Canadian-universities.net 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 Canadian-universities.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

canadian-universities.net

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Canadian Universities. 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: