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Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

vfs.edu

Vancouver Film School: Entertainment Arts Training For Film, TV, Animation, Games

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

vfs.edu screenshot

About Website

Visit vfs.edu now to see the best up-to-date Vfs content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about vfs.edu

Vancouver Film School (VFS) is Canada’s premier post-secondary entertainment arts institution, offering an immersive curriculum in film, animation, design, & beyond.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vfs.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vfs.edu performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,640 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.685

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vfs.edu

1013 ms

node.css

89 ms

style.css

253 ms

jquery.min.js

234 ms

jquery.once.js

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Vfs.edu, 17% (19 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 9% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Wcs.naver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

835.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Vfs.edu main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 72.7 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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 57.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 480.2 kB
  • After minification 473.5 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. Vfs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 168.9 kB

  • Original 515.2 kB
  • After minification 512.7 kB
  • After compression 346.3 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 168.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (71%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vfs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vfs.edu

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1013 ms

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89 ms

style.css

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253 ms

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143 ms

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168 ms

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144 ms

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75 ms

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95 ms

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155 ms

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116 ms

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203 ms

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138 ms

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136 ms

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157 ms

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61 ms

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487 ms

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159 ms

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151 ms

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Accessibility Review

vfs.edu accessibility score

61

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

vfs.edu 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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vfs.edu SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Vfs.edu 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 Vfs.edu 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

vfs.edu

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