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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

courses.smu.edu

Canvas LMS

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

301 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Courses.smu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

courses.smu.edu performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

courses.smu.edu

164 ms

Canvas

169 ms

canvas

137 ms

gtm.js

96 ms

font-awesome.min.v-kykq9xy79zvallanpsbrmw.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Courses.smu.edu, 30% (22 requests) were made to Smu.edu and 10% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) relates to the external source Smu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

959.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Courses.smu.edu main page is 1.0 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. CSS take 675.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 77.6 kB
  • After minification 62.9 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.7 kB, which is 19% 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 61.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 144.3 kB
  • After minification 144.2 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. Courses Smu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 126.4 kB
  • After minification 126.4 kB
  • After compression 124.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 551 B

  • Original 675.3 kB
  • After minification 675.3 kB
  • After compression 674.7 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. Courses.smu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (83%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Courses Smu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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164 ms

Canvas

Canvas

169 ms

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canvas

137 ms

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gtm.js

96 ms

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jquery.min.js

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206 ms

DepartmentLandingHeader.min.css

DepartmentLandingHeader.min.css

206 ms

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92 ms

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Accessibility Review

courses.smu.edu accessibility score

96

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.

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

courses.smu.edu 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

courses.smu.edu SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Courses.smu.edu 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 Courses.smu.edu 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

courses.smu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Courses Smu. 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: