Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

farstadretirement.com

Farstad Portfolio Management · Scotia Wealth Management

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

946 ms

Page Rendered

850 ms

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About Website

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Scotia Wealth Management is an innovative team-based approach to wealth management that addresses the entirety of your life – your family, your business, your future – one facet at a time.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Farstadretirement.com page load time and found that the first response time was 32 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 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

farstadretirement.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,030 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

farstadretirement.com

32 ms

farstadretirement.com

25 ms

brand-swmSlate.min.css

51 ms

core.min.css

6 ms

core-swm.min.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Farstadretirement.com, 30% (13 requests) were made to Advisor.scotiawealthmanagement.com and 21% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.iconicgroup.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (536 ms) relates to the external source Maps.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.0 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Farstadretirement.com main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 5.4 kB, which is 11% 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 36.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Farstad Retirement images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 228.6 kB
  • After compression 227.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 10.0 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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. Farstadretirement.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (50%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Farstad Retirement. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

farstadretirement.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

farstadretirement.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

farstadretirement.com SEO score

77

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Farstadretirement.com 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 Farstadretirement.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Farstad Retirement. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: