Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

aer.ca

Alberta Energy Regulator

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

213 ms

aer.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to aer.ca homepage info - get ready to check Aer best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about aer.ca

Today, the AER is the single regulator of energy development in Alberta—from application and exploration, to construction and operation, to decommissioning, closure, and reclamation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aer.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 1.4 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

aer.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aer.ca

134 ms

analytics.js

11 ms

bootstrap.custom.css

173 ms

custom.css

153 ms

jquery.tablesorter.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Aer.ca, 16% (12 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) belongs to the original domain Aer.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 851.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Aer.ca main page is 2.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.1 kB, which is 24% 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 25.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 399.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Aer needs image optimization as it can save up to 399.8 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

-73%

Potential reduce by 226.2 kB

  • Original 309.6 kB
  • After minification 290.0 kB
  • After compression 83.4 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 226.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 199.1 kB

  • Original 230.1 kB
  • After minification 174.9 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. Aer.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (62%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aer.ca accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

aer.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

aer.ca SEO score

86

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aer.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Aer.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 Aer. 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: