Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

myucwest.ca

University Canada West | Login

Page Load Speed

864 ms in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

558 ms

Page Rendered

228 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myucwest.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 786 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

myucwest.ca performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.086

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

78 ms

1login.css

44 ms

1login.js

76 ms

js

61 ms

1_bg.png

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Myucwest.ca, 17% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (100 ms) belongs to the original domain Myucwest.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.1 kB (0%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Myucwest.ca main page is 2.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 3.0 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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 358 B, which is 12% 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 1.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Myuc West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 201 B

  • Original 75.9 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 46.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Myuc West. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

myucwest.ca accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

myucwest.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

myucwest.ca SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Myucwest.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 Myucwest.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 description is not detected on the main page of Myuc West. 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: