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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 37

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

whatsonkingston.com

whatsonkingston.com - Kingston, Ontario Events, Entertainment, Accommodations, Sports, Business, Shopping, Tourism.

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

129 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Whatson Kingston content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about whatsonkingston.com

whatsonkingston.com is an Entertainment guide to Kingston, Ontario; keeping all community and entertainment events, services and businesses at your fingertips.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whatsonkingston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whatsonkingston.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whatsonkingston.com

113 ms

text.css

8 ms

header4.gif

27 ms

header_bota4.gif

23 ms

header_botb.gif

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Whatsonkingston.com, 19% (8 requests) were made to Btn.weather.ca and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Btn.weather.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

127.1 kB

After Optimization

89.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whatsonkingston.com main page is 127.1 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. Images take 75.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.5 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 6.6 kB, which is 23% 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 23.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 65.6 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. Obviously, Whatson Kingston needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.6 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Whatsonkingston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (41%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whatson Kingston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

whatsonkingston.com accessibility score

37

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.

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

<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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

whatsonkingston.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

whatsonkingston.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whatsonkingston.com 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 Whatsonkingston.com main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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