Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

nctakeoff.ca

Get started. Launch. Take off. | ncTakeOff | Niagara College

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

831 ms

Page Rendered

456 ms

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About Website

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ncTakeOff is Niagara College’s hub for entrepreneurial education. By exposing NC students to the concept of entrepreneurship, we’re building an innovative, enterprising and challenge-embracing

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nctakeoff.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nctakeoff.ca performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

80 ms

global.css

8 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

52 ms

normalize.css

116 ms

foundation.min.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Nctakeoff.ca, 11% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (285 ms) relates to the external source Use.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.3 kB (6%)

Content Size

560.1 kB

After Optimization

528.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Nctakeoff.ca main page is 560.1 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. Images take 483.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 6.5 kB, which is 23% 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 22.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 483.5 kB
  • After minification 478.5 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. NcTakeOff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Nctakeoff.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (61%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NcTakeOff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nctakeoff.ca accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

nctakeoff.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

nctakeoff.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

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

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 Nctakeoff.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 Nctakeoff.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 NcTakeOff. 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: