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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

engineering.usask.ca

College of Engineering | University of Saskatchewan

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

179 ms

Resources Loaded

766 ms

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineering.usask.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 179 ms and then it took 973 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engineering.usask.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.311

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineering.usask.ca

179 ms

default.css

101 ms

jquery.js

202 ms

jquery_ui.js

50 ms

jquery-ui.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Engineering.usask.ca, 50% (18 requests) were made to Usask.ca and 11% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (231 ms) belongs to the original domain Engineering.usask.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

423.6 kB

After Optimization

237.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Engineering.usask.ca main page is 423.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 173.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 14.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 173.5 kB
  • After minification 154.3 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, Engineering Usask needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.2 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 88.2 kB

  • Original 148.1 kB
  • After minification 137.5 kB
  • After compression 59.8 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 88.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 64.5 kB

  • Original 82.2 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Engineering.usask.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (40%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineering Usask. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

engineering.usask.ca

engineering.usask.ca

179 ms

default.css

default.css

101 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

202 ms

jquery_ui.js

jquery_ui.js

50 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

16 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

6 ms

popup.css

popup.css

191 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

91 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

102 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

94 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

93 ms

homepage-layout-2-v2.css

homepage-layout-2-v2.css

189 ms

twitter.js

twitter.js

94 ms

newsfeed.js

newsfeed.js

100 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

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105 ms

uofs-logo.png

uofs-logo.png

73 ms

paws.png

paws.png

74 ms

search.png

search.png

75 ms

3-squares-sm.png

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98 ms

arrows-nav.png

arrows-nav.png

97 ms

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99 ms

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99 ms

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FaceBook_24x24.png

99 ms

uofs-logo-grey.png

uofs-logo-grey.png

99 ms

feedback.png

feedback.png

133 ms

inpage_linkid.js

inpage_linkid.js

5 ms

features.php

features.php

58 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

109 ms

branding-graphic.png

branding-graphic.png

112 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

28 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

25 ms

hard-hat-2015.jpg

hard-hat-2015.jpg

231 ms

news.php

news.php

56 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

50 ms

print.css

print.css

50 ms

Accessibility Review

engineering.usask.ca accessibility score

93

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

engineering.usask.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

engineering.usask.ca SEO score

91

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

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 Engineering.usask.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 Engineering.usask.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

engineering.usask.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Engineering Usask. 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: