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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

welc.ca

Home - Western English Language Centre (WELC) - Western University

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

982 ms

Page Rendered

215 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 111 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

welc.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welc.ca

111 ms

welc.ca

126 ms

style-responsive-2017.css

193 ms

standard-menu-2017.css

219 ms

rubik-font.css

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Welc.ca, 54% (26 requests) were made to Uwo.ca and 8% (4 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (390 ms) belongs to the original domain Welc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Welc.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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 2.5 kB, which is 11% 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 16.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 78.2 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. WELC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 305.0 kB
  • After minification 305.0 kB
  • After compression 259.3 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 45.7 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 102.8 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 82.9 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. Welc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (46%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of WELC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

welc.ca

welc.ca

111 ms

welc.ca

welc.ca

126 ms

style-responsive-2017.css

style-responsive-2017.css

193 ms

standard-menu-2017.css

standard-menu-2017.css

219 ms

rubik-font.css

rubik-font.css

245 ms

roboto-font.css

roboto-font.css

271 ms

js

js

43 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

323 ms

respond.js

respond.js

275 ms

imgSizer.js

imgSizer.js

271 ms

welc-custom-new.css

welc-custom-new.css

28 ms

js

js

73 ms

rbn-standardpage.js

rbn-standardpage.js

272 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

298 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

299 ms

jquery.client.js

jquery.client.js

297 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

298 ms

scripts-responsive-2017.js

scripts-responsive-2017.js

300 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

57 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

104 ms

banner_home.jpg

banner_home.jpg

104 ms

ttl-westernenglishlangcentre.png

ttl-westernenglishlangcentre.png

57 ms

RT-western.png

RT-western.png

56 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

51 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

53 ms

youtube1.svg

youtube1.svg

53 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

50 ms

weibo.svg

weibo.svg

101 ms

logo-western-crest-ftr.svg

logo-western-crest-ftr.svg

102 ms

WELC%20Booklet.jpg

WELC%20Booklet.jpg

390 ms

6oCjYptfiMU

6oCjYptfiMU

138 ms

tab-closed.gif

tab-closed.gif

81 ms

shadowcorner.png

shadowcorner.png

79 ms

drop.png

drop.png

79 ms

icon_about_us.jpg

icon_about_us.jpg

114 ms

icon_experience.jpg

icon_experience.jpg

157 ms

icon_key_info.jpg

icon_key_info.jpg

157 ms

icon_programs.jpg

icon_programs.jpg

158 ms

icon_your_future.jpg

icon_your_future.jpg

158 ms

icon_contact.jpg

icon_contact.jpg

158 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

72 ms

collect

collect

26 ms

arrow-l.gif

arrow-l.gif

38 ms

arrow-r.gif

arrow-r.gif

37 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

4 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

9 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

23 ms

base.js

base.js

43 ms

Accessibility Review

welc.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

welc.ca best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

welc.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Welc.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 Welc.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

welc.ca

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