Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

continue.yorku.ca

York University School of Continuing Studies | Continuing Education in Toronto, Canada

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

6.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Continue.yorku.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 8.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

continue.yorku.ca performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

continue.yorku.ca

69 ms

continue.yorku.ca

867 ms

theme-styles.css

50 ms

tribe-events-pro-mini-calendar-block.min.css

80 ms

style.min.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Continue.yorku.ca, 9% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (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 Continue.yorku.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.7 kB (3%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Continue.yorku.ca main page is 8.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 130.8 kB

  • Original 158.5 kB
  • After minification 146.5 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 130.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 97.6 kB

  • Original 8.1 MB
  • After minification 8.0 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. Continue York U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 326.2 kB
  • After minification 325.7 kB
  • After compression 322.1 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 122.5 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. Continue.yorku.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (63%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Continue York U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

continue.yorku.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

continue.yorku.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

continue.yorku.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

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 Continue.yorku.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 Continue.yorku.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 Continue York U. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: