Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ccr.ubc.ca

Centre for Chinese Research | Centre for Chinese Research

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

585 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

142 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ccr.ubc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 585 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ccr.ubc.ca performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.275

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ccr.ubc.ca

585 ms

ubc-clf-full.min.css

106 ms

subpage-navigation-base.css

149 ms

flexslider.css

225 ms

style.css

232 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ccr.ubc.ca, 15% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.ubc.ca and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (674 ms) belongs to the original domain Ccr.ubc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

494.2 kB

After Optimization

416.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Ccr.ubc.ca main page is 494.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 287.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 49.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 287.2 kB
  • After minification 264.6 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. Ccr Ubc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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. Ccr.ubc.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (67%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ccr Ubc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ccr.ubc.ca accessibility score

95

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.

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

ccr.ubc.ca best practices score

83

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

ccr.ubc.ca SEO score

82

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 Ccr.ubc.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 Ccr.ubc.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 description is not detected on the main page of Ccr Ubc. 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: