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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

chatham-kent.ca

Chatham-Kent

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

390 ms

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About Website

Visit chatham-kent.ca now to see the best up-to-date Chatham Kent content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chatham-kent.ca

The official site of the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Chatham-Kent is a welcoming, diverse community with a population of over 110,000 located in Southwestern Ontario on the banks of Lake Erie and La...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chatham-kent.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 1.8 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

chatham-kent.ca performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,340 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.548

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chatham-kent.ca

75 ms

www.chatham-kent.ca

100 ms

default.aspx

180 ms

Band.css

74 ms

controls.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Chatham-kent.ca, 6% (5 requests) were made to Webchat.chatham-kent.ca and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) belongs to the original domain Chatham-kent.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 884.0 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

574.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chatham-kent.ca main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 722.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 131.3 kB

  • Original 157.2 kB
  • After minification 145.8 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 131.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 399.3 kB
  • After minification 354.4 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, Chatham Kent needs image optimization as it can save up to 45.0 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 556.9 kB

  • Original 722.8 kB
  • After minification 587.2 kB
  • After compression 166.0 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 556.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 150.9 kB

  • Original 178.6 kB
  • After minification 141.4 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. Chatham-kent.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (49%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chatham Kent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

chatham-kent.ca

chatham-kent.ca

75 ms

www.chatham-kent.ca

www.chatham-kent.ca

100 ms

default.aspx

default.aspx

180 ms

Band.css

Band.css

74 ms

controls.css

controls.css

75 ms

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core.css

172 ms

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core.css

147 ms

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ck_core.css

79 ms

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ck_home.css

144 ms

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184 ms

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192 ms

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jquery.min.js

67 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

90 ms

masterPage_functions.js

masterPage_functions.js

166 ms

mck_chatwidgetinjector.js

mck_chatwidgetinjector.js

264 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

117 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

117 ms

InternetSearch.js

InternetSearch.js

196 ms

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152 ms

CK.Spotlight.js

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163 ms

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core.js

178 ms

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29 ms

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58 ms

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58 ms

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56 ms

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55 ms

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53 ms

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74 ms

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81 ms

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81 ms

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82 ms

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113 ms

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175 ms

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107 ms

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112 ms

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112 ms

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175 ms

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187 ms

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248 ms

mck_widgetReferences.js

mck_widgetReferences.js

209 ms

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hmpg_bg_shim_home.jpg

240 ms

hmpg_top_shim.jpg

hmpg_top_shim.jpg

237 ms

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254 ms

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22 ms

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205 ms

search_bg_shim.gif

search_bg_shim.gif

187 ms

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202 ms

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202 ms

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239 ms

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246 ms

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199 ms

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228 ms

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230 ms

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203 ms

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213 ms

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237 ms

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239 ms

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249 ms

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235 ms

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241 ms

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hmpg_footer_bottom_shim.jpg

235 ms

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597 ms

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sprite-search-home.png

212 ms

mck_ChatWidget.js

mck_ChatWidget.js

41 ms

mck_WidgetStyles.css

mck_WidgetStyles.css

41 ms

Print.css

Print.css

38 ms

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__utm.gif

38 ms

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43 ms

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45 ms

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84 ms

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37 ms

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40 ms

Accessibility Review

chatham-kent.ca accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

chatham-kent.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

chatham-kent.ca SEO score

75

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Chatham-kent.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 Chatham-kent.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

chatham-kent.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chatham Kent. 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: