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prospective.ualberta.ca

Prospective Students - University of Alberta

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

404 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prospective.ualberta.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 285 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Prospective.ualberta.ca rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

prospective.ualberta.ca

285 ms

2647 ms

j.php

41 ms

modernizr.min.js

1727 ms

jquery.min.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Prospective.ualberta.ca, 33% (19 requests) were made to Uofa.ualberta.ca and 12% (7 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Uofa.ualberta.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 659.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Prospective.ualberta.ca main page is 2.6 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 255.2 kB

  • Original 281.4 kB
  • After minification 226.9 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 54.4 kB, which is 19% 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 255.2 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 176.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Prospective U Alberta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 181.7 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 308.9 kB
  • After compression 127.2 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 181.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 46.0 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Prospective.ualberta.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (67%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prospective U Alberta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Prospective.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 Prospective.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Prospective U Alberta. 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: