Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

comox.ca

Homepage | Town of Comox

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

843 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

169 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comox.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 843 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comox.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.322

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comox.ca

843 ms

style.css

117 ms

modernizr-1.5.min.js

131 ms

jquery.js

41 ms

plugins.js

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Comox.ca, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (843 ms) belongs to the original domain Comox.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

39.2 kB

After Optimization

23.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Comox.ca main page is 39.2 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. HTML takes 22.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.4 kB, which is 29% 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 16.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (35%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comox. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

comox.ca accessibility score

70

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

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.

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>).

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

comox.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

comox.ca SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Comox.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 Comox.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 Comox. 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: