Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

canvas.stanford.edu

Canvas Login Stanford University

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

126 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canvas.stanford.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 126 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canvas.stanford.edu performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canvas.stanford.edu

126 ms

canvas.stanford.edu

129 ms

login

33 ms

discovery

520 ms

309 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Canvas.stanford.edu, 54% (19 requests) were made to Web.stanford.edu and 14% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Web.stanford.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Canvas.stanford.edu main page is 1.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 17.2 kB

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 6.2 kB, which is 31% 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 17.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Canvas Stanford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 101.2 kB
  • After minification 100.1 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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 32.9 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 131.4 kB

  • Original 161.9 kB
  • After minification 161.0 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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. Canvas.stanford.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canvas Stanford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

canvas.stanford.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

canvas.stanford.edu 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

canvas.stanford.edu SEO score

87

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 Canvas.stanford.edu 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 Canvas.stanford.edu 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 Canvas Stanford. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: