Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

scholar.uwindsor.ca

Scholarship at UWindsor is the institutional repository of the University of Windsor.

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scholar.uwindsor.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scholar.uwindsor.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.449

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scholar.uwindsor.ca

154 ms

scholar.uwindsor.ca

284 ms

yui-min.js

35 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

launch-d525bb0064d8.min.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Scholar.uwindsor.ca, 44% (67 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Assets.bepress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (390 ms) belongs to the original domain Scholar.uwindsor.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.7 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Scholar.uwindsor.ca main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 523.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 267.3 kB

  • Original 330.5 kB
  • After minification 303.0 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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 267.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 506.2 kB
  • After minification 494.0 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. Scholar UWindsor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 51.1 kB

  • Original 523.3 kB
  • After minification 523.2 kB
  • After compression 472.2 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

-37%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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. Scholar.uwindsor.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.1 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 117 (79%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scholar UWindsor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 93 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scholar.uwindsor.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scholar.uwindsor.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

scholar.uwindsor.ca SEO score

96

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 Scholar.uwindsor.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 Scholar.uwindsor.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Scholar UWindsor. 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: