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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

quest.uwaterloo.ca

Home | Quest - Student Information System | University of Waterloo

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

415 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

Visit quest.uwaterloo.ca now to see the best up-to-date Quest U Waterloo content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about quest.uwaterloo.ca

Quest is the University of Waterloo's student information system. Students and applicants Important note for students and alumni (applicants excluded): Two-factor authentication (2FA) is now mand...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quest.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 415 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

quest.uwaterloo.ca performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Quest.uwaterloo.ca, 76% (25 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 438.1 kB (51%)

Content Size

866.5 kB

After Optimization

428.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Quest.uwaterloo.ca main page is 866.5 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 389.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 28.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 69.4 kB

  • Original 337.8 kB
  • After minification 268.4 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, Quest U Waterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 69.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 259.8 kB

  • Original 389.2 kB
  • After minification 372.2 kB
  • After compression 129.4 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 259.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 101.1 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. Quest.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 80.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (53%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quest 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 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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widgets.js

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university-of-waterloo-logo.png

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131 ms

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130 ms

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Accessibility Review

quest.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

quest.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

quest.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

100

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Quest.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 Quest.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

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