Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

athletics.georgebrown.ca

George Brown College Athletics and Recreation - George Brown College Athletics

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

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The George Brown College Athletics and Recreation Department is proud to offer a variety of competitive and recreation-based programs to its members. Our 11 Huskies varsity sports teams compete in On...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Athletics.georgebrown.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 11.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

athletics.georgebrown.ca performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value107.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,870 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.489

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value138.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

athletics.georgebrown.ca

30 ms

athletics.georgebrown.ca

378 ms

index

206 ms

index

1515 ms

jquery.js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 453 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Athletics.georgebrown.ca, 87% (393 requests) were made to Cdn.prestosports.com and 3% (15 requests) were made to D2o2figo6ddd0g.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Athletics.georgebrown.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.2 MB (21%)

Content Size

48.3 MB

After Optimization

38.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Athletics.georgebrown.ca main page is 48.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 44.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 3.4 MB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 96.5 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 2.2 MB, which is 62% 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 3.4 MB or 97% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.7 MB

  • Original 44.5 MB
  • After minification 37.8 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. Obviously, Athletics George Brown needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.7 MB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 145.5 kB
  • After minification 145.3 kB
  • After compression 126.0 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 19.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 94.2 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 44.9 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. Athletics.georgebrown.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.3 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (11%)

Requests Now

432

After Optimization

386

The browser has sent 432 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Athletics George Brown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

athletics.georgebrown.ca accessibility score

89

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

athletics.georgebrown.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

athletics.georgebrown.ca SEO score

97

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

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 Athletics.georgebrown.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 Athletics.georgebrown.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 Athletics George Brown. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: