Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 68

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

has.uwo.ca

Housing and Ancillary Services at Western University

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

181 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

286 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Has.uwo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 181 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

has.uwo.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

has.uwo.ca

181 ms

google_tag.script.js

38 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

65 ms

align.module.css

122 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Has.uwo.ca, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (450 ms) belongs to the original domain Has.uwo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

894.4 kB

After Optimization

500.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Has.uwo.ca main page is 894.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 461.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 4.8 kB, which is 16% 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 24.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 313.8 kB
  • After minification 310.1 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. Has Uwo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 86.7 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 363.9 kB

  • Original 461.6 kB
  • After minification 460.5 kB
  • After compression 97.8 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. Has.uwo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 363.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (82%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Has Uwo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 40 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

has.uwo.ca accessibility score

91

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

has.uwo.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

has.uwo.ca SEO score

68

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Has.uwo.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 Has.uwo.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 Has Uwo. 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: