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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

housing.uwaterloo.ca

Your home is Waterloo. | Campus Housing

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

357 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housing.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housing.uwaterloo.ca performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Housing.uwaterloo.ca, 74% (34 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.5 kB (66%)

Content Size

704.8 kB

After Optimization

236.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Housing.uwaterloo.ca main page is 704.8 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. Javascripts take 451.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.2 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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 30.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 34.4 kB

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 56.3 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, Housing U Waterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.4 kB or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 305.8 kB

  • Original 451.9 kB
  • After minification 435.3 kB
  • After compression 146.1 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 305.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 98.2 kB

  • Original 122.2 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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. Housing.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (63%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housing U Waterloo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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327 ms

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Accessibility Review

housing.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

92

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

housing.uwaterloo.ca best practices score

67

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

housing.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

99

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 Housing.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 Housing.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

housing.uwaterloo.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Housing U Waterloo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: