Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca

Home | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

160 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 160 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca

160 ms

1346 ms

css_i_3WJ38DZYFx7blVUA_0tU0OiP5HOleFKqcei8T3604.css

200 ms

css_Rn5D1Ks0rfrr8Hp1asFCrBW7GJ9aw9C_Bm8Kq-lffrI.css

154 ms

css_0xXnEnu_acCcPILcyjMAIQd0xrp-9ASKEFRpVcp3iy4.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca, 42% (32 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 20% (15 requests) were made to O.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 31.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. News Release U Waterloo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 302.2 kB

  • Original 447.6 kB
  • After minification 432.3 kB
  • After compression 145.4 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 302.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 147.5 kB
  • After minification 145.0 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 119.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (39%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Release 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca accessibility score

94

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

Best Practices

newsrelease.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

newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca SEO score

93

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 Newsrelease.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 Newsrelease.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

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