Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

uqat.ca

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | UQAT

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

uqat.ca screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uqat.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uqat.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uqat.ca

318 ms

global-2013-10-10.css

149 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

249 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

154 ms

jquery.vticker.js

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Uqat.ca, 11% (8 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (595 ms) belongs to the original domain Uqat.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 235.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

775.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Uqat.ca main page is 1.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 725.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 38.2 kB
  • After compression 10.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.1 kB, which is 18% 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 36.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 725.9 kB
  • After minification 678.2 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. UQAT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 183.6 kB
  • After minification 182.7 kB
  • After compression 78.5 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 105.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 55.9 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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. Uqat.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (51%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UQAT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uqat.ca accessibility score

85

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

[role] values are not valid

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

uqat.ca SEO score

85

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Uqat.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Uqat.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 UQAT. 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: