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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

bme.utoronto.ca

Institute of Biomedical Engineering - University of Toronto

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

442 ms

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About Website

Visit bme.utoronto.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bme U Toronto content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bme.utoronto.ca

The Institute of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is the official biomedical engineering graduate unit at the University of Toronto.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bme.utoronto.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 2.6 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

bme.utoronto.ca performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,140 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.667

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bme.utoronto.ca

49 ms

bme.utoronto.ca

1274 ms

js

96 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

43 ms

style.min.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Bme.utoronto.ca, 8% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bme.utoronto.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bme.utoronto.ca main page is 2.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.0 kB

  • Original 155.6 kB
  • After minification 152.8 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 128.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 53.6 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Bme U Toronto images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 196.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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. Bme.utoronto.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (56%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bme U Toronto. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bme.utoronto.ca

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49 ms

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1274 ms

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96 ms

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43 ms

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66 ms

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86 ms

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76 ms

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76 ms

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127 ms

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127 ms

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155 ms

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155 ms

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141 ms

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css

28 ms

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240 ms

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254 ms

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322 ms

iframe_api

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38 ms

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321 ms

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322 ms

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322 ms

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323 ms

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323 ms

util.min.js

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324 ms

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324 ms

site.min.js

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323 ms

new-tab.js

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324 ms

p.css

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38 ms

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319 ms

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271 ms

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Accessibility Review

bme.utoronto.ca accessibility score

89

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

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

bme.utoronto.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bme.utoronto.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Bme.utoronto.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 Bme.utoronto.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

bme.utoronto.ca

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