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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

atlanticuniversities.ca

Association of Atlantic Universities - The voice of Atlantic Canada's Universities

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

454 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Atlanticuniversities.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 9.1 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

atlanticuniversities.ca performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.atlanticuniversities.ca

255 ms

0f3156b3d14310445baaf5602b5b9ec9.css

45 ms

style.css

24 ms

zenith_home_page.css

29 ms

style.css

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Atlanticuniversities.ca, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Atlanticuniversities.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Atlanticuniversities.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 294.5 kB

  • Original 336.8 kB
  • After minification 335.7 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 294.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Atlantic Universities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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

-18%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 224.1 kB
  • After minification 223.7 kB
  • After compression 182.8 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. Atlanticuniversities.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 41.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (19%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Atlantic Universities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.atlanticuniversities.ca

www.atlanticuniversities.ca

255 ms

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45 ms

style.css

style.css

24 ms

zenith_home_page.css

zenith_home_page.css

29 ms

style.css

style.css

317 ms

zenith-wordpress_home_page.css

zenith-wordpress_home_page.css

320 ms

custom_home_page.css

custom_home_page.css

323 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

319 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

276 ms

css

css

133 ms

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sample-1.jpg

206 ms

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sample-2.jpg

300 ms

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Acadia-wpcf_200x133.jpg

300 ms

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301 ms

CBU-wpcf_200x133.jpg

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279 ms

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Dal-new-Static-wpcf_200x133.jpg

220 ms

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MUN-wpcf_200x133.jpg

280 ms

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MTA-wpcf_200x133.jpg

424 ms

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MSVU-wpcf_200x133.jpg

456 ms

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425 ms

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480 ms

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457 ms

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STU-wpcf_200x133.jpg

452 ms

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UdeM-wpcf_200x133.jpg

533 ms

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UstA-wpcf_200x133.jpg

575 ms

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Kings-wpcf_200x133.jpg

5559 ms

UNB-wpcf_200x133.jpg

UNB-wpcf_200x133.jpg

5561 ms

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UPEI-wpcf_200x133.jpg

5547 ms

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5547 ms

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135 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

5398 ms

invisible.js

invisible.js

339 ms

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227 ms

AAU-MAP-Inset.png

AAU-MAP-Inset.png

215 ms

Champions-Graphic.png

Champions-Graphic.png

197 ms

student-3.jpg

student-3.jpg

256 ms

Springboard_Logo.png

Springboard_Logo.png

50 ms

atlanticimmigrationprogram.jpg

atlanticimmigrationprogram.jpg

230 ms

students-1.jpg

students-1.jpg

301 ms

placeholder.png

placeholder.png

171 ms

Accessibility Review

atlanticuniversities.ca accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

atlanticuniversities.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

atlanticuniversities.ca SEO score

76

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

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

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 Atlanticuniversities.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 Atlanticuniversities.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

atlanticuniversities.ca

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