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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

ucas.ca

Licensed and Professional Real Estate Appraisers in Canada

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

537 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

367 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ucas.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 537 ms and then it took 2.2 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

ucas.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.734

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ucas.ca

537 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

54 ms

styles.css

109 ms

css

40 ms

genericons.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Ucas.ca, 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (632 ms) belongs to the original domain Ucas.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ucas.ca main page is 2.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 43.1 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 5.4 kB, which is 13% 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 32.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Ucas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 361.3 kB
  • After minification 361.3 kB
  • After compression 357.0 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 75.8 kB
  • After minification 75.8 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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. Ucas.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (60%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ucas. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ucas.ca

ucas.ca

537 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

54 ms

styles.css

styles.css

109 ms

css

css

40 ms

genericons.css

genericons.css

210 ms

style.css

style.css

162 ms

style.css

style.css

161 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

218 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

159 ms

css

css

51 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

165 ms

slick.css

slick.css

213 ms

slicknav.css

slicknav.css

213 ms

animate.css

animate.css

215 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

277 ms

theme.css

theme.css

292 ms

js

js

78 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

423 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

354 ms

jquery.slicknav.min.js

jquery.slicknav.min.js

354 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

291 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

291 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

475 ms

theme.js

theme.js

473 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

504 ms

api.js

api.js

48 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

474 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

474 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

474 ms

functions.js

functions.js

516 ms

validate.js

validate.js

516 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

518 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

189 ms

186 ms

UCAS.jpg

UCAS.jpg

168 ms

Commercial-banner.jpg

Commercial-banner.jpg

326 ms

industrial-real-estate-banner.jpg

industrial-real-estate-banner.jpg

286 ms

Residential-3.jpg

Residential-3.jpg

374 ms

hospitality-banner-1.jpg

hospitality-banner-1.jpg

425 ms

announcement-bg.jpg

announcement-bg.jpg

632 ms

welcome.jpg

welcome.jpg

325 ms

commercial.png

commercial.png

325 ms

Industrial-Real-Estate-108-round.png

Industrial-Real-Estate-108-round.png

371 ms

residential.png

residential.png

372 ms

heat2.png

heat2.png

374 ms

bg-img.png

bg-img.png

427 ms

1.png

1.png

426 ms

2.png

2.png

427 ms

3.png

3.png

427 ms

4.png

4.png

475 ms

log.png

log.png

478 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

478 ms

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pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6Z1xlEA.ttf

79 ms

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrJJfedw.ttf

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrJJfedw.ttf

97 ms

fontawesome-webfont3e6e.woff

fontawesome-webfont3e6e.woff

382 ms

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JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCtr6Hw5aX8.ttf

111 ms

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aX8.ttf

JTUHjIg1_i6t8kCHKm4532VJOt5-QNFgpCuM73w5aX8.ttf

109 ms

collect

collect

76 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

59 ms

46 ms

js

js

88 ms

Accessibility Review

ucas.ca accessibility score

89

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 input fields do not have accessible names

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ucas.ca best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ucas.ca SEO score

84

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

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 Ucas.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 Ucas.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

ucas.ca

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