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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

mme.uwaterloo.ca

Welcome to Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

74 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

735 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mme.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 74 ms and then it took 2.7 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

mme.uwaterloo.ca performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,650 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mme.uwaterloo.ca

74 ms

151 ms

js

76 ms

css2

134 ms

gtm.js

209 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mme.uwaterloo.ca, 39% (28 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 13% (9 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (921 ms) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mme.uwaterloo.ca main page is 2.4 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 119.0 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 30.9 kB, which is 22% 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 119.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Mme U Waterloo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 279.0 kB
  • After compression 264.6 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 171.5 kB
  • After minification 171.4 kB
  • After compression 142.7 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. Mme.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (63%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mme U Waterloo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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151 ms

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76 ms

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Accessibility Review

mme.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

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

mme.uwaterloo.ca best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mme.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

87

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 Mme.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 Mme.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

mme.uwaterloo.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mme U Waterloo. 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: