Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

bi.ulaval.ca

Bienvenue à l'Université Laval | ULaval | Ville de Québec, Canada

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

981 ms

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

bi.ulaval.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit bi.ulaval.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bi ULaval content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bi.ulaval.ca

L'Université Laval, située dans la ville de Québec au Canada, est reconnue à l'international pour l'excellence de sa formation aux 3 cycles et de sa recherche scientifique

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bi.ulaval.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bi.ulaval.ca performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bi.ulaval.ca

95 ms

www.ulaval.ca

207 ms

gtm.js

65 ms

css_emjcoSsxxB1n--HSdfCI_mec8bf1NLVJUmeSCt7srHA.css

71 ms

css_QQneu55FZVJ19aavQRylQk6y5OcZE2iZ2q-OQNBz51k.css

125 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bi.ulaval.ca, 91% (48 requests) were made to Ulaval.ca and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (337 ms) relates to the external source Ulaval.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 161.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Bi.ulaval.ca main page is 3.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 110.3 kB

  • Original 132.3 kB
  • After minification 121.9 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. 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 110.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Bi ULaval images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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 26.6 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 174 B

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Bi.ulaval.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (59%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bi ULaval. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bi.ulaval.ca accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

bi.ulaval.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

SEO Factors

bi.ulaval.ca SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bi.ulaval.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bi.ulaval.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 Bi ULaval. 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: