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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

lac.ualberta.ca

Learning Assessment Centre | Information Services and Technology (IST)

Page Load Speed

904 ms in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

602 ms

Page Rendered

236 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lac.ualberta.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 838 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lac.ualberta.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,350 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lac.ualberta.ca

66 ms

lac.ualberta.ca

38 ms

index.html

42 ms

index.html

4 ms

index.html

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Lac.ualberta.ca, 73% (16 requests) were made to Ualberta.ca and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (169 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lac.ualberta.ca main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 96.8 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 43.1 kB, which is 44% 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 85.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 100.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Lac Ualberta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 654 B

  • Original 278.3 kB
  • After minification 278.3 kB
  • After compression 277.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 112.7 kB
  • After minification 112.7 kB
  • After compression 108.7 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. Lac.ualberta.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (53%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lac Ualberta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lac.ualberta.ca

lac.ualberta.ca

66 ms

lac.ualberta.ca

lac.ualberta.ca

38 ms

index.html

index.html

42 ms

index.html

index.html

4 ms

index.html

index.html

103 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

169 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

27 ms

framework-v2.js

framework-v2.js

40 ms

coveojssearch.lazy.min.js

coveojssearch.lazy.min.js

94 ms

coveo.extension.js

coveo.extension.js

45 ms

framework-v2.css

framework-v2.css

54 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

46 ms

coveofullsearch.css

coveofullsearch.css

89 ms

css2

css2

59 ms

print.css

print.css

69 ms

ua-logo-reversed-white.svg

ua-logo-reversed-white.svg

77 ms

lac-facility.jpg

lac-facility.jpg

83 ms

framework-v2.css

framework-v2.css

80 ms

lac-student-2.png

lac-student-2.png

84 ms

lac-faculty-2.png

lac-faculty-2.png

81 ms

lac-nonuofa-2.png

lac-nonuofa-2.png

82 ms

font

font

20 ms

Accessibility Review

lac.ualberta.ca accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lac.ualberta.ca best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

lac.ualberta.ca SEO score

85

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

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 Lac.ualberta.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 Lac.ualberta.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lac Ualberta. 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: