Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

eps.mcgill.ca

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences - McGill University

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eps.mcgill.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 69 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

eps.mcgill.ca performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

69 ms

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375 ms

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397 ms

css_RIv4AEeTz6abM7I8BNKtFrUcf1o56yv8Br6XY901RBA.css

378 ms

css_F1fTahL20RX-p1mFrzM1ugaP0ESENSg-01Y7KwctfYA.css

448 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Eps.mcgill.ca, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (790 ms) relates to the external source Mcgill.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 804.0 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

967.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Eps.mcgill.ca main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 762.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 22.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 762.6 kB
  • After minification 715.0 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. Eps Mc Gill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 338.4 kB

  • Original 499.3 kB
  • After minification 478.5 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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 338.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 395.7 kB

  • Original 478.2 kB
  • After minification 472.6 kB
  • After compression 82.6 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. Eps.mcgill.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 395.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (44%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eps Mc Gill. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eps.mcgill.ca accessibility score

76

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

eps.mcgill.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

eps.mcgill.ca SEO score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Eps.mcgill.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 Eps.mcgill.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 Eps 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: