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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

stu.ca

Home - St. Thomas University - Fredericton, NB Canada

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stu.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 2.8 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

stu.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value72.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stu.ca

66 ms

www.stu.ca

144 ms

all.css

35 ms

php-blade-calendar.css

30 ms

style-local.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Stu.ca, 26% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Stu.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 748.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

15.9 MB

After Optimization

15.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stu.ca main page is 15.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.1 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 6.9 kB, which is 21% 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 25.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 650.8 kB

  • Original 15.5 MB
  • After minification 14.8 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. St U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 344.6 kB
  • After minification 344.4 kB
  • After compression 278.3 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 66.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 111.4 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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. Stu.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (61%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stu.ca

stu.ca

66 ms

www.stu.ca

www.stu.ca

144 ms

all.css

all.css

35 ms

php-blade-calendar.css

php-blade-calendar.css

30 ms

style-local.css

style-local.css

103 ms

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font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

st-updates.css

st-updates.css

96 ms

slick.css

slick.css

96 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

95 ms

css2

css2

41 ms

style2020.css

style2020.css

93 ms

js

js

57 ms

psrr15470.css

psrr15470.css

135 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

146 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

251 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

259 ms

foundation-datepicker.js

foundation-datepicker.js

268 ms

combined-js-files.js

combined-js-files.js

258 ms

match-height.js

match-height.js

268 ms

responsive-tables.js

responsive-tables.js

343 ms

php-events-calendar.js

php-events-calendar.js

344 ms

slick.js

slick.js

343 ms

t4-custom.min.js

t4-custom.min.js

343 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

158 ms

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OeugyEPHdBs

305 ms

STU_FullColour_Digital.png

STU_FullColour_Digital.png

337 ms

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1301 ms

hp_applynow.jpg

hp_applynow.jpg

1035 ms

FB-MFC.jpg

FB-MFC.jpg

586 ms

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1042 ms

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800 ms

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MMH-3.jpg

1264 ms

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athletes_HP.jpg

1153 ms

virtual_events-fs_featurebox.jpg

virtual_events-fs_featurebox.jpg

939 ms

line-2427x32.jpg

line-2427x32.jpg

1035 ms

STU_FooterLogo_New2023.png

STU_FooterLogo_New2023.png

1155 ms

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analytics.js

184 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

65 ms

events.js

events.js

384 ms

js

js

152 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

302 ms

emergency.json

emergency.json

887 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

177 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

254 ms

base.js

base.js

336 ms

collect

collect

147 ms

collect

collect

159 ms

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36 ms

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ga-audiences

394 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

255 ms

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asmjs.js

133 ms

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198 ms

Create

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137 ms

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107 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

20 ms

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print.css

31 ms

Accessibility Review

stu.ca accessibility score

81

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

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

stu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

stu.ca SEO score

80

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

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 Stu.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 Stu.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

stu.ca

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