Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

curiousguide.ca

Curious The Tourist Guide - Guide to shopping, entertainment and tourist information in Ontario

Page Load Speed

161 ms in total

First Response

80 ms

Resources Loaded

81 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Welcome to curiousguide.ca homepage info - get ready to check Curious Guide best content right away, or after learning these important things about curiousguide.ca

A publication that promotes the unique and out of the way shops, services, towns, and events that pepper Ontario. Our editorial consists of bits of history about the towns we visit, stories sent in by...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Curiousguide.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 80 ms and then it took 81 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

curiousguide.ca performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

curiousguide.ca

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Curiousguide.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (80 ms) belongs to the original domain Curiousguide.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 887.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Curiousguide.ca main page is 4.7 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 680 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 650 B

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 680 B or 51% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 884.2 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Obviously, Curious Guide needs image optimization as it can save up to 884.2 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 427 B

  • Original 41.1 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Curiousguide.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

curiousguide.ca accessibility score

75

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

curiousguide.ca SEO score

58

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

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 Curiousguide.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 Curiousguide.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 Curious Guide. 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: