Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

langara.ca

Langara. The college of higher learning

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

434 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

337 ms

langara.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit langara.ca now to see the best up-to-date Langara content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about langara.ca

Langara College, located in Vancouver, B.C., provides university, career, and continuing studies programs to over 23,000 students annually. We offer the largest university transfer program in Canada, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Langara.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 434 ms and then it took 2.5 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

langara.ca performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

langara.ca

434 ms

qbl8uug.js

132 ms

style.css

553 ms

gallery.css

238 ms

specials.css

162 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Langara.ca, 10% (4 requests) were made to Chum.langara.bc.ca and 10% (4 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Langara.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

862.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Langara.ca main page is 1.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 734.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 28.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.4 kB, which is 13% 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 27.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 734.0 kB
  • After minification 713.8 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. Langara images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 281.4 kB

  • Original 404.7 kB
  • After minification 389.4 kB
  • After compression 123.2 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 281.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 161.6 kB

  • Original 180.8 kB
  • After minification 139.5 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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. Langara.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Langara. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

langara.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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

langara.ca best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

langara.ca SEO score

87

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

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 Langara.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 Langara.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 Langara. 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: