Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

housing.ucanwest.ca

University Canada West | Off Campus Housing Search University Canada West | Off Campus Housing Search | 4stay

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housing.ucanwest.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housing.ucanwest.ca performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,860 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.005

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housing.ucanwest.ca

1373 ms

lato

30 ms

application-2e672ae5.css

31 ms

runtime-92d2ba2eeb8b7d2fd0ea.js

177 ms

vendors-cdd60c62-feff149f54d5a0e4395c.js

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Housing.ucanwest.ca, 45% (18 requests) were made to D3guu5uu0s6zk1.cloudfront.net and 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Housing.ucanwest.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Housing.ucanwest.ca main page is 3.3 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 95.7 kB

  • Original 117.8 kB
  • After minification 117.7 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. 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 95.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 523.3 kB
  • After minification 523.3 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. Housing Ucan West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 781 B

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 2.4 MB

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 222.8 kB
  • After minification 222.8 kB
  • After compression 222.8 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. Housing.ucanwest.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (74%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housing Ucan West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

housing.ucanwest.ca accessibility score

79

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

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

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

housing.ucanwest.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

housing.ucanwest.ca SEO score

98

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 Housing.ucanwest.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 Housing.ucanwest.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 Housing Ucan West. 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: