Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

elaa.ab.ca

Your Connection to Post-Secondary Opportunities - Educational Liaison Association of Alberta

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

102 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

820 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elaa.ab.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 102 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elaa.ab.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,320 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

elaa.ab.ca

102 ms

elaa.ab.ca

1317 ms

font-awesome-5.min.css

188 ms

font-awesome-v4-shims.css

185 ms

animate.min.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Elaa.ab.ca, 63% (55 requests) were made to Elaa.b-cdn.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Elaa.ab.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Elaa.ab.ca main page is 3.4 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 168.1 kB

  • Original 198.7 kB
  • After minification 184.9 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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 168.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 177.0 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Elaa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 718.8 kB
  • After minification 718.8 kB
  • After compression 703.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 184.9 kB
  • After minification 180.6 kB
  • After compression 146.0 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. Elaa.ab.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.9 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (83%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elaa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

elaa.ab.ca accessibility score

92

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

elaa.ab.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

elaa.ab.ca SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Elaa.ab.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 Elaa.ab.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 data is detected on the main page of Elaa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: