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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

saf.uwaterloo.ca

More Than Business | School of Accounting and Finance

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

477 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saf.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 76 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 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saf.uwaterloo.ca performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,470 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.575

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saf.uwaterloo.ca

76 ms

115 ms

js

100 ms

gtm.js

241 ms

css_6SKEYg1lxDNVrj0g0qmOIzMWZpTzp5HCoOlDlybGi34.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Saf.uwaterloo.ca, 43% (32 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 12% (9 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (793 ms) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.2 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saf.uwaterloo.ca main page is 1.8 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 110.1 kB

  • Original 130.5 kB
  • After minification 100.9 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 29.6 kB, which is 23% 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 110.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 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. Saf Uwaterloo 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 171.4 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. Saf.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 38 (54%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saf 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 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

saf.uwaterloo.ca

saf.uwaterloo.ca

76 ms

115 ms

js

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100 ms

gtm.js

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241 ms

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24 ms

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46 ms

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owl.carousel.min.css

92 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

154 ms

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79 ms

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146 ms

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212 ms

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74 ms

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90 ms

MathJax.js

MathJax.js

193 ms

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77 ms

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81 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

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210 ms

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80 ms

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78 ms

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208 ms

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312 ms

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229 ms

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462 ms

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228 ms

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230 ms

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310 ms

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315 ms

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339 ms

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315 ms

uwaterloo-logo.svg

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132 ms

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153 ms

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156 ms

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159 ms

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147 ms

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146 ms

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342 ms

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102 ms

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313 ms

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92 ms

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520 ms

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515 ms

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514 ms

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512 ms

fbevents.js

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295 ms

LightningBolt.js

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294 ms

player_api

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77 ms

ytc.js

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290 ms

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508 ms

uwt.js

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290 ms

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204 ms

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150 ms

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145 ms

GenerateIT

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13 ms

Accessibility Review

saf.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

87

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

saf.uwaterloo.ca best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

saf.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Saf.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 Saf.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

saf.uwaterloo.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Saf Uwaterloo. 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: