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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

biology.mcgill.ca

Department of Biology - McGill University

Page Load Speed

751 ms in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

370 ms

Page Rendered

220 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biology.mcgill.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 590 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

biology.mcgill.ca performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

biology.mcgill.ca

161 ms

ga.js

40 ms

style.css

65 ms

slideshow.css

54 ms

mootools.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Biology.mcgill.ca, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) belongs to the original domain Biology.mcgill.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

939.1 kB

After Optimization

822.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Biology.mcgill.ca main page is 939.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 894.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 22.8 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 5.8 kB, which is 25% 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 17.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 894.1 kB
  • After minification 799.1 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. Obviously, Biology Mc Gill needs image optimization as it can save up to 94.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-80%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Biology.mcgill.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Biology Mc Gill. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

biology.mcgill.ca

biology.mcgill.ca

161 ms

ga.js

ga.js

40 ms

style.css

style.css

65 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

54 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

54 ms

visualslideshow.js

visualslideshow.js

54 ms

style.css

style.css

54 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

55 ms

wowslider.js

wowslider.js

55 ms

script.js

script.js

56 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

27 ms

img01.jpg

img01.jpg

31 ms

img02h.jpg

img02h.jpg

198 ms

img03.jpg

img03.jpg

59 ms

img04.gif

img04.gif

17 ms

line.jpg

line.jpg

60 ms

evolution.jpg

evolution.jpg

91 ms

ecology.jpg

ecology.jpg

102 ms

bioinformatics.jpg

bioinformatics.jpg

60 ms

behaviour.jpg

behaviour.jpg

102 ms

molbiolgenetics.jpg

molbiolgenetics.jpg

105 ms

celldevbiology.jpg

celldevbiology.jpg

89 ms

neurobiology.jpg

neurobiology.jpg

121 ms

plantbiology.jpg

plantbiology.jpg

120 ms

mcgill_crest&name.jpg

mcgill_crest&name.jpg

128 ms

bckgr_top.jpg

bckgr_top.jpg

122 ms

bckgr.jpg

bckgr.jpg

123 ms

bckgr_bottom.jpg

bckgr_bottom.jpg

130 ms

img05.jpg

img05.jpg

130 ms

Accessibility Review

biology.mcgill.ca accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

biology.mcgill.ca best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

biology.mcgill.ca SEO score

67

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Biology.mcgill.ca 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 Biology.mcgill.ca 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

biology.mcgill.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Biology Mc Gill. 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: