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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

safa.uwaterloo.ca

Home | Student Awards & Financial Aid | University of Waterloo

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Safa.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 3.2 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

safa.uwaterloo.ca performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

safa.uwaterloo.ca

159 ms

student-awards-financial-aid

273 ms

67 ms

786 ms

css_-DISIKKh8k-kqf0er2aTuESHfbjtA_j-NAIreO4jpBc.css

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Safa.uwaterloo.ca, 81% (35 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.6 kB (54%)

Content Size

780.4 kB

After Optimization

360.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Safa.uwaterloo.ca main page is 780.4 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 389.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 35.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 240.6 kB
  • After minification 199.7 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, Safa U Waterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 40.9 kB or 17% 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

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.5 kB

  • Original 105.0 kB
  • After minification 102.6 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. Safa.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Safa 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

safa.uwaterloo.ca

safa.uwaterloo.ca

159 ms

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student-awards-financial-aid

273 ms

67 ms

786 ms

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154 ms

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167 ms

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215 ms

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190 ms

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228 ms

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211 ms

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272 ms

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207 ms

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317 ms

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63 ms

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334 ms

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350 ms

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122 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

170 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

95 ms

university-of-waterloo-logo.png

university-of-waterloo-logo.png

144 ms

search-arrows.png

search-arrows.png

92 ms

SAFA-wordmark.png

SAFA-wordmark.png

159 ms

menu-leaf.png

menu-leaf.png

87 ms

menu-collapsed.png

menu-collapsed.png

86 ms

chevrons-yellow.png

chevrons-yellow.png

142 ms

safabanner3.jpg

safabanner3.jpg

263 ms

caption-bg.png

caption-bg.png

194 ms

budget_calculator.png

budget_calculator.png

163 ms

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enrstrt_for_std_and_staff.png

158 ms

osap_repayment_webinar.png

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178 ms

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1244 ms

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224 ms

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238 ms

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290 ms

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300 ms

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294 ms

iconic.svg

iconic.svg

346 ms

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collect

77 ms

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collect

88 ms

collect

collect

52 ms

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101 ms

Accessibility Review

safa.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

90

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

safa.uwaterloo.ca best practices score

58

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

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

safa.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

93

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 Safa.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 Safa.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

safa.uwaterloo.ca

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