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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

caps.ualberta.ca

Career Centre

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

145 ms

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About Website

Visit caps.ualberta.ca now to see the best up-to-date Caps Ualberta content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about caps.ualberta.ca

The Career Centre is your source for career and employment information and expertise at the University of Alberta.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caps.ualberta.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

caps.ualberta.ca performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.caps.ualberta.ca

2055 ms

jsapi

40 ms

default.css

207 ms

2col.css

156 ms

WebResource.axd

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Caps.ualberta.ca, 13% (7 requests) were made to Google.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Caps.ualberta.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 842.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

900.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Caps.ualberta.ca 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.5 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 23.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 633.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 783.4 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. Obviously, Caps Ualberta needs image optimization as it can save up to 633.6 kB or 45% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 261.8 kB
  • After minification 251.1 kB
  • After compression 102.2 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 159.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 31.8 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Caps.ualberta.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (60%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Caps Ualberta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.caps.ualberta.ca

www.caps.ualberta.ca

2055 ms

jsapi

jsapi

40 ms

default.css

default.css

207 ms

2col.css

2col.css

156 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

167 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

206 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

167 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

155 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

221 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

220 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

238 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

73 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

94 ms

ga.js

ga.js

47 ms

Signupforournewsletter.png

Signupforournewsletter.png

180 ms

twitter-icon35.png

twitter-icon35.png

108 ms

blogger-icon25.png

blogger-icon25.png

196 ms

facebook-icon35.png

facebook-icon35.png

109 ms

youtube-icon35.png

youtube-icon35.png

291 ms

linkedin_icon35.png

linkedin_icon35.png

111 ms

Science-Mixer-web-banner-students.png

Science-Mixer-web-banner-students.png

1639 ms

arts-mixer-students-web-banner.png

arts-mixer-students-web-banner.png

2372 ms

T2CwebbannerOct282015fw.png

T2CwebbannerOct282015fw.png

828 ms

BlogBannerfw.png

BlogBannerfw.png

972 ms

Build-a-Resume.jpg

Build-a-Resume.jpg

1262 ms

Research-your-career-options.jpg

Research-your-career-options.jpg

388 ms

Find_a_job.jpg

Find_a_job.jpg

1357 ms

Register-for-a-program.jpg

Register-for-a-program.jpg

1178 ms

PostJobs.png

PostJobs.png

1053 ms

Request-a-presentation.jpg

Request-a-presentation.jpg

1211 ms

talk-to-a-career-advisor-final_(1).jpg

talk-to-a-career-advisor-final_(1).jpg

2168 ms

hdr_events.gif

hdr_events.gif

1299 ms

bg_shadow.jpg

bg_shadow.jpg

1316 ms

bg_shadowtop.jpg

bg_shadowtop.jpg

1342 ms

ua_logo.png

ua_logo.png

1388 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

29 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

20 ms

bg_searchbutton.png

bg_searchbutton.png

1431 ms

CCGreenWebHeaderfw.png

CCGreenWebHeaderfw.png

1570 ms

bg_menu.jpg

bg_menu.jpg

2101 ms

arrow_right.gif

arrow_right.gif

1735 ms

bg_shadowbottom.jpg

bg_shadowbottom.jpg

1736 ms

cse.js

cse.js

17 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

7135.js

7135.js

10 ms

cse.js

cse.js

77 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

16 ms

jsapi

jsapi

18 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

2 ms

default.css

default.css

41 ms

default+en.I.js

default+en.I.js

10 ms

default.css

default.css

17 ms

print.css

print.css

73 ms

Accessibility Review

caps.ualberta.ca accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

caps.ualberta.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

caps.ualberta.ca SEO score

98

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 Caps.ualberta.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 Caps.ualberta.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

caps.ualberta.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Caps Ualberta. 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: