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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

sota.mcmaster.ca

School of the Arts | Humanities | McMaster University

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Visit sota.mcmaster.ca now to see the best up-to-date Sota Mc Master content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sota.mcmaster.ca

School of the Arts at McMaster offers students intensive art programs in Studio Art, Art History, Music & Music Cognition, and Theatre & Film Studies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sota.mcmaster.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sota.mcmaster.ca performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sota.mcmaster.ca

73 ms

sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca

175 ms

analytics.js

27 ms

hotjar-537687.js

97 ms

style.min.css

697 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sota.mcmaster.ca, 67% (31 requests) were made to Sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (697 ms) relates to the external source Sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 663.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sota.mcmaster.ca main page is 6.1 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 5.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 100.0 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 14.0 kB, which is 12% 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 90.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 268.5 kB

  • Original 5.4 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Sota Mc Master images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 264.3 kB

  • Original 447.3 kB
  • After minification 447.1 kB
  • After compression 182.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 264.3 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 175.1 kB
  • After minification 175.1 kB
  • After compression 134.8 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. Sota.mcmaster.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sota 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sota.mcmaster.ca

sota.mcmaster.ca

73 ms

sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca

sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca

175 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

hotjar-537687.js

hotjar-537687.js

97 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

697 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

76 ms

main_1e4006d6.css

main_1e4006d6.css

179 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

104 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

96 ms

polyfill.js

polyfill.js

275 ms

resources

resources

92 ms

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main_1e4006d6.js

150 ms

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header_footer_1e4006d6.js

131 ms

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13 ms

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js

65 ms

40 ms

css

css

47 ms

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270 ms

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313 ms

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284 ms

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128 ms

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186 ms

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115 ms

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77 ms

Welcome-to-the-School-of-the-Arts-banner.png

Welcome-to-the-School-of-the-Arts-banner.png

248 ms

Welcome-to-the-School-of-the-Arts-banner-Mobile.png

Welcome-to-the-School-of-the-Arts-banner-Mobile.png

226 ms

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116 ms

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126 ms

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125 ms

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183 ms

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184 ms

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201 ms

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203 ms

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201 ms

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228 ms

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229 ms

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SOTA-DiscoverMcMaster-300-190px-300x190.jpg

229 ms

Donate-CTA.png

Donate-CTA.png

319 ms

Donate-CTA-Mobile.png

Donate-CTA-Mobile.png

253 ms

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headersfooters.js

253 ms

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73 ms

Accessibility Review

sota.mcmaster.ca accessibility score

97

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sota.mcmaster.ca best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sota.mcmaster.ca SEO score

84

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

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Sota.mcmaster.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 Sota.mcmaster.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

sota.mcmaster.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Sota Mc Master. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: