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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

queensu.ca

Queen's University Canada

Page Load Speed

26.6 sec in total

First Response

314 ms

Resources Loaded

19.3 sec

Page Rendered

7 sec

queensu.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Queen Su content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about queensu.ca

Queen's is a leading, research-intense university in Canada offering an inclusive, transformative education that will prepare you to make a global impact.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Queensu.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 314 ms and then it took 26.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

queensu.ca performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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314 ms

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70 ms

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Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Queensu.ca, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Queensu.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (14%)

Content Size

10.7 MB

After Optimization

9.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Queensu.ca main page is 10.7 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. 80% 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 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. 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 62.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 227.9 kB

  • Original 9.1 MB
  • After minification 8.8 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. Queen Su images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 697.7 kB

  • Original 894.0 kB
  • After minification 621.4 kB
  • After compression 196.3 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 697.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 552.0 kB

  • Original 678.0 kB
  • After minification 664.7 kB
  • After compression 126.0 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. Queensu.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 552.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (31%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Queen Su. 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 JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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314 ms

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Accessibility Review

queensu.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

queensu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

queensu.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Queensu.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 Queensu.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

queensu.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Queen Su. 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: