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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca

Home | Undergraduate Programs | University of Waterloo

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,170 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.241

52/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca

91 ms

future-students

137 ms

131 ms

css2

42 ms

css2

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca, 44% (44 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 10% (10 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Youtube-nocookie.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

961.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca main page is 2.2 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 916.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 75.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 367.6 kB
  • After minification 367.6 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. Findoutmore U Waterloo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 483.1 kB

  • Original 916.6 kB
  • After minification 809.3 kB
  • After compression 433.4 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 483.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 634.6 kB

  • Original 774.6 kB
  • After minification 772.1 kB
  • After compression 140.0 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. Findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 634.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (71%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Findoutmore U Waterloo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

87

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 have valid values

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

Best Practices

findoutmore.uwaterloo.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

99

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

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 Findoutmore.uwaterloo.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 Findoutmore.uwaterloo.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

findoutmore.uwaterloo.ca

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