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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ucalgary.ca

University of Calgary

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

678 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucalgary.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ucalgary.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucalgary.ca

146 ms

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318 ms

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65 ms

google_tag.script.js

179 ms

google_tag.script.js

266 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Ucalgary.ca, 9% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Ucalgary.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ucalgary.ca main page is 2.6 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 123.1 kB

  • Original 149.7 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 44.9 kB, which is 30% 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 123.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. U Calgary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 465.1 kB
  • After minification 465.1 kB
  • After compression 452.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 119 B

  • Original 148.4 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 148.3 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. Ucalgary.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (70%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of U Calgary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ucalgary.ca accessibility score

98

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

ucalgary.ca best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ucalgary.ca SEO score

91

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Ucalgary.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 Ucalgary.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

ucalgary.ca

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