Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

macc.mcmaster.ca

McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC)

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

675 ms

Page Rendered

651 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macc.mcmaster.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

macc.mcmaster.ca performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.608

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macc.mcmaster.ca

164 ms

ga.js

6 ms

macc.css

27 ms

macchome.css

55 ms

slideshowimages.js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Macc.mcmaster.ca, 14% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (357 ms) belongs to the original domain Macc.mcmaster.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Macc.mcmaster.ca main page is 1.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 34.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 144.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 989.5 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, MACC Mc Master needs image optimization as it can save up to 144.2 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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

-82%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. Macc.mcmaster.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (16%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MACC Mc Master. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

macc.mcmaster.ca accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

macc.mcmaster.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

macc.mcmaster.ca SEO score

75

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Macc.mcmaster.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 Macc.mcmaster.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MACC Mc Master. 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: