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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

math.uwaterloo.ca

A powerhouse of discovery and innovation | Mathematics

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

137 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Math.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 137 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

math.uwaterloo.ca performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.135

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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137 ms

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Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Math.uwaterloo.ca, 83% (34 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.mathjax.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.5 kB (54%)

Content Size

850.1 kB

After Optimization

391.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Math.uwaterloo.ca main page is 850.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 451.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.6 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 30.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 236.9 kB
  • After minification 212.0 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, Math Uwaterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 305.8 kB

  • Original 451.9 kB
  • After minification 435.3 kB
  • After compression 146.1 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 305.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 97.2 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 118.4 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. Math.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 97.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Math Uwaterloo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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137 ms

1311 ms

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193 ms

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Accessibility Review

math.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

82

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

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

math.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

math.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 Math.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 Math.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

math.uwaterloo.ca

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