Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

sociologie.uqam.ca

Département de sociologie - UQAM

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

sociologie.uqam.ca screenshot

About Website

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Le Département de sociologie de l’UQAM propose des programmes d’étude et de recherche novateurs et d’une grande rigueur intellectuelle qui permettent de mieux comprendre les sociétés contemporaines ai...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sociologie.uqam.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sociologie.uqam.ca performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sociologie.uqam.ca

480 ms

jcemediabox.css

19 ms

style.css

34 ms

modstyle.css

35 ms

mootools.js

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Sociologie.uqam.ca, 23% (12 requests) were made to Gabarit-c.uqam.ca and 4% (2 requests) were made to Code-c.uqam.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (480 ms) belongs to the original domain Sociologie.uqam.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.1 kB (65%)

Content Size

380.8 kB

After Optimization

134.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Sociologie.uqam.ca main page is 380.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 246.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 4.3 kB, which is 13% 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 26.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 33.4 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, Sociologie UQAM needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.3 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 161.1 kB

  • Original 246.9 kB
  • After minification 235.7 kB
  • After compression 85.8 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 161.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Sociologie.uqam.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (63%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sociologie UQAM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sociologie.uqam.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sociologie.uqam.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

SEO Factors

sociologie.uqam.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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sociologie.uqam.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Sociologie.uqam.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 Sociologie UQAM. 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: