Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

bensonit.ca

Benson IT - Your Small Business' Personalized IT Specialists

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

893 ms

Page Rendered

163 ms

bensonit.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bensonit.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bensonit.ca performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bensonit.ca

176 ms

analytics.js

19 ms

main.css

71 ms

benson_fonts.css

183 ms

styles.css

180 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Bensonit.ca, 29% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (340 ms) belongs to the original domain Bensonit.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

326.2 kB

After Optimization

268.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Bensonit.ca main page is 326.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 194.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 1.7 kB, which is 15% 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 8.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 194.8 kB
  • After minification 181.1 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. Benson IT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 32.9 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 114.1 kB
  • After compression 81.2 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 32.9 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Bensonit.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.6 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (54%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Benson IT. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bensonit.ca accessibility score

62

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bensonit.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bensonit.ca SEO score

69

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bensonit.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 Bensonit.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 Benson IT. 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: