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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ssts.uwo.ca

Social Science Technology Services - Western University

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

797 ms

Page Rendered

166 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ssts.uwo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 963 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ssts.uwo.ca performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ssts.uwo.ca

83 ms

ssts.uwo.ca

154 ms

style-responsive-2017.css

197 ms

standard-menu-2017.css

225 ms

rubik-font.css

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Ssts.uwo.ca, 57% (27 requests) were made to Uwo.ca and 6% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (324 ms) relates to the external source Uwo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

984.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ssts.uwo.ca main page is 1.2 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. Images take 935.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 27.7 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 21.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 116.4 kB

  • Original 935.4 kB
  • After minification 819.0 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. Obviously, Ssts Uwo needs image optimization as it can save up to 116.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 158.5 kB
  • After minification 158.5 kB
  • After compression 126.7 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 31.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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. Ssts.uwo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.9 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (43%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ssts Uwo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ssts.uwo.ca

ssts.uwo.ca

83 ms

ssts.uwo.ca

ssts.uwo.ca

154 ms

style-responsive-2017.css

style-responsive-2017.css

197 ms

standard-menu-2017.css

standard-menu-2017.css

225 ms

rubik-font.css

rubik-font.css

251 ms

roboto-font.css

roboto-font.css

276 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

303 ms

respond.js

respond.js

278 ms

imgSizer.js

imgSizer.js

278 ms

js

js

60 ms

rbn-standardpage.js

rbn-standardpage.js

277 ms

icon-font.min.css

icon-font.min.css

111 ms

all.css

all.css

55 ms

brand

brand

23 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

324 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

324 ms

jquery.client.js

jquery.client.js

294 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

275 ms

scripts-responsive-2017.js

scripts-responsive-2017.js

294 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

19 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

72 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

100 ms

13-Gradescope.png

13-Gradescope.png

71 ms

Western_Logo_F_S_SocialScience_RGB.svg

Western_Logo_F_S_SocialScience_RGB.svg

63 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

67 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

66 ms

youtube1.svg

youtube1.svg

68 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

65 ms

weibo.svg

weibo.svg

68 ms

logo-western-crest-ftr.svg

logo-western-crest-ftr.svg

94 ms

Patches-April---1920-x-300.png

Patches-April---1920-x-300.png

185 ms

12_SSTSServiceDeskfinaLFLAT2.png

12_SSTSServiceDeskfinaLFLAT2.png

218 ms

IBMSPSSStatistics1.jpg

IBMSPSSStatistics1.jpg

240 ms

netcomp.png

netcomp.png

266 ms

Software.png

Software.png

267 ms

RemoteAccess415X223.png

RemoteAccess415X223.png

240 ms

SSTSHelp.jpg

SSTSHelp.jpg

217 ms

tab-closed.gif

tab-closed.gif

63 ms

shadowcorner.png

shadowcorner.png

66 ms

drop.png

drop.png

62 ms

ex-link.png

ex-link.png

63 ms

branding.png

branding.png

26 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

86 ms

bg_control_nav.png

bg_control_nav.png

59 ms

arrow-l.gif

arrow-l.gif

38 ms

arrow-r.gif

arrow-r.gif

39 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

5 ms

Accessibility Review

ssts.uwo.ca accessibility score

97

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ssts.uwo.ca best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ssts.uwo.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ssts.uwo.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 Ssts.uwo.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

ssts.uwo.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ssts Uwo. 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: