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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

teaching.uwo.ca

Centre for Teaching and Learning - Western University

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Teaching.uwo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 121 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

teaching.uwo.ca performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.105

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teaching.uwo.ca

121 ms

style-responsive-2017.css

169 ms

standard-menu-2017.css

195 ms

rubik-font.css

222 ms

roboto-font.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Teaching.uwo.ca, 38% (29 requests) were made to Uwo.ca and 23% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (445 ms) belongs to the original domain Teaching.uwo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.7 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Teaching.uwo.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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 38.2 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 29.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 119.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Teaching Uwo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 306.1 kB
  • After minification 306.1 kB
  • After compression 291.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 92.1 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 81.3 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. Teaching.uwo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (63%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Teaching Uwo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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121 ms

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169 ms

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195 ms

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246 ms

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247 ms

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Accessibility Review

teaching.uwo.ca accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

teaching.uwo.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

teaching.uwo.ca SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Teaching.uwo.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 Teaching.uwo.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

teaching.uwo.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Teaching Uwo. 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: