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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

git.uwaterloo.ca

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Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

95 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Git.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 10.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

git.uwaterloo.ca performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

git.uwaterloo.ca

172 ms

git.uwaterloo.ca

408 ms

sign_in

151 ms

application-a81ca6d11d79fbf86ca08c8f1359de4d.css

9284 ms

application-30bdeb208dee0386a7a7298371bab417.js

1116 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Git.uwaterloo.ca, 13% (1 request) were made to Cdn.pbrd.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Git.uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 350.3 kB (82%)

Content Size

425.9 kB

After Optimization

75.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Git.uwaterloo.ca main page is 425.9 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 378.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 33.7 kB
  • After minification 33.7 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 23.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 8.5 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, Git Uwaterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 321.5 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 376.7 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. Git.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 321.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Git Uwaterloo. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

git.uwaterloo.ca

git.uwaterloo.ca

172 ms

git.uwaterloo.ca

git.uwaterloo.ca

408 ms

sign_in

sign_in

151 ms

application-a81ca6d11d79fbf86ca08c8f1359de4d.css

application-a81ca6d11d79fbf86ca08c8f1359de4d.css

9284 ms

application-30bdeb208dee0386a7a7298371bab417.js

application-30bdeb208dee0386a7a7298371bab417.js

1116 ms

RcVfPAR.png

RcVfPAR.png

432 ms

logo-ca207549507c811d027110077cf86e90.svg

logo-ca207549507c811d027110077cf86e90.svg

82 ms

print-47fe51cdf70398e5e54b544e0f5cc718.css

print-47fe51cdf70398e5e54b544e0f5cc718.css

83 ms

Accessibility Review

git.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

git.uwaterloo.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

git.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

92

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

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 Git.uwaterloo.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 Git.uwaterloo.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

git.uwaterloo.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Git Uwaterloo. 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: