Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

uwofa.ca

University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) - Home

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

474 ms

uwofa.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing UWOFA content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about uwofa.ca

UWOFA is a union advocating for better working conditions for faculty members, librarians & archivists at Western University.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Uwofa.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

uwofa.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

uwofa.ca

38 ms

www.uwofa.ca

1169 ms

js_composer_tta.min.css

24 ms

style.css

309 ms

styles.min.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Uwofa.ca, 11% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Uwofa.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Uwofa.ca main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 73.6 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 66.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 87.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. UWOFA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 115.2 kB
  • After minification 115.1 kB
  • After compression 100.6 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 14.6 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 155.5 kB
  • After minification 155.5 kB
  • After compression 149.1 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. Uwofa.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (64%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UWOFA. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

uwofa.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

uwofa.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

uwofa.ca SEO score

100

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

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