Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

pense.ca

Town of Pense - Home

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pense.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 37 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

pense.ca performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pense.ca

37 ms

pense.ca

415 ms

bootstrap.min.css

47 ms

font-awesome.min.css

37 ms

all.min.css

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Pense.ca, 8% (5 requests) were made to Pense2023.municipalwebsites.ca and 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (509 ms) relates to the external source Pense2023.municipalwebsites.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (16%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Pense.ca main page is 7.3 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 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 87.0 kB

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 70.5 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 29.5 kB, which is 30% 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 87.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 305.3 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Pense images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 197.5 kB

  • Original 493.5 kB
  • After minification 408.3 kB
  • After compression 296.0 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 197.5 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 604.2 kB

  • Original 717.1 kB
  • After minification 620.5 kB
  • After compression 112.9 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. Pense.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 604.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (74%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pense. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pense.ca accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

pense.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pense.ca SEO score

83

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

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

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 Pense.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 Pense.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 Pense. 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: