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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

cmns.athabascau.ca

Home | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Athabasca University

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cmns.athabascau.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 8.2 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

cmns.athabascau.ca performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cmns.athabascau.ca

75 ms

1757 ms

css2

82 ms

font-awesome.min.css

109 ms

api.js

158 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cmns.athabascau.ca, 19% (4 requests) were made to Athabascau.ca and 14% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Static.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.2 kB (64%)

Content Size

716.9 kB

After Optimization

257.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cmns.athabascau.ca main page is 716.9 kB. 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. HTML takes 587.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 458.5 kB

  • Original 587.3 kB
  • After minification 580.8 kB
  • After compression 128.8 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 458.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 103.5 kB
  • After minification 103.5 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. Cmns Athabasca U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 626 B

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 25 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Cmns.athabascau.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (68%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cmns Athabasca 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cmns.athabascau.ca

cmns.athabascau.ca

75 ms

1757 ms

css2

css2

82 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

109 ms

api.js

api.js

158 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

169 ms

wurfl.js

wurfl.js

381 ms

AU-WP-RESTAPI-min.js

AU-WP-RESTAPI-min.js

377 ms

global.js

global.js

1103 ms

jquery.lazy.min.js

jquery.lazy.min.js

11 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

38 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

372 ms

page.php

page.php

1025 ms

fallback

fallback

158 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

778 ms

js

js

102 ms

hotjar-2783893.js

hotjar-2783893.js

2922 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

670 ms

css

css

2216 ms

fhss-social-sciences-hero-lg

fhss-social-sciences-hero-lg

1829 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

157 ms

Accessibility Review

cmns.athabascau.ca accessibility score

82

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

cmns.athabascau.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

cmns.athabascau.ca SEO score

82

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

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 Cmns.athabascau.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 Cmns.athabascau.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

cmns.athabascau.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cmns Athabasca U. 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: