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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

polymtl.ca

Polytechnique Montréal | Polytechnique Montréal est l’un des plus importants établissements d’enseignement et de recherche en génie au Canada

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

726 ms

Page Rendered

242 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polymtl.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 968 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

polymtl.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,970 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polymtl.ca

56 ms

www.polymtl.ca

75 ms

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30 ms

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33 ms

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48 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Polymtl.ca, 7% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (265 ms) belongs to the original domain Polymtl.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (32%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Polymtl.ca main page is 3.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 81.1 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 67.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Polymtl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 560.6 kB

  • Original 781.1 kB
  • After minification 715.3 kB
  • After compression 220.6 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 560.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 453.5 kB

  • Original 534.5 kB
  • After minification 532.3 kB
  • After compression 81.0 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. Polymtl.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 453.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (28%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polymtl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

polymtl.ca

polymtl.ca

56 ms

www.polymtl.ca

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75 ms

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30 ms

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33 ms

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48 ms

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63 ms

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35 ms

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83 ms

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59 ms

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181 ms

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151 ms

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143 ms

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45 ms

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46 ms

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56 ms

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54 ms

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56 ms

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54 ms

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185 ms

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Accessibility Review

polymtl.ca accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

polymtl.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

polymtl.ca SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Polymtl.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Polymtl.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

polymtl.ca

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