Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

questu.ca

Landing -

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

766 ms

Page Rendered

277 ms

questu.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit questu.ca now to see the best up-to-date Questu content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about questu.ca

Quest University Canada, the country’s first independent, not-for-profit, secular university is located in Squamish, British Columbia. Quest’s simple philosophy is that education, in its truest sense,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Questu.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

questu.ca performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value66.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.questu.ca

38 ms

ModuleStyleSheets.css

8 ms

site_global.css

13 ms

master_base.css

14 ms

index.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Questu.ca, 10% (6 requests) were made to S.swiftypecdn.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Webfonts.creativecloud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (190 ms) relates to the external source Webfonts.creativecloud.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 530.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Questu.ca main page is 2.6 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 107.1 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 48.0 kB, which is 40% 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 107.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Questu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 224.1 kB

  • Original 335.4 kB
  • After minification 335.2 kB
  • After compression 111.3 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 224.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 169.5 kB

  • Original 204.6 kB
  • After minification 170.6 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. Questu.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 169.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (74%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Questu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

questu.ca accessibility score

73

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

questu.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

questu.ca SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Questu.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 Questu.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 data is detected on the main page of Questu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: