Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

jobs.usask.ca

Careers @ USask - Careers | University of Saskatchewan

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jobs.usask.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

jobs.usask.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.327

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jobs.usask.ca

159 ms

type.css

57 ms

layout.css

99 ms

color.css

108 ms

jquery.css

1114 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Jobs.usask.ca, 23% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Jobs.usask.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.5 kB (65%)

Content Size

708.9 kB

After Optimization

248.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Jobs.usask.ca main page is 708.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 492.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 83.7 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 64.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 27.9 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. Obviously, Jobs USask needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 309.0 kB

  • Original 492.6 kB
  • After minification 483.8 kB
  • After compression 183.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 309.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 81.6 kB

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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. Jobs.usask.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jobs USask. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

jobs.usask.ca accessibility score

88

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

jobs.usask.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

jobs.usask.ca SEO score

92

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Jobs.usask.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 Jobs.usask.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Jobs USask. 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: