Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

film.ns.ca

Nova Scotia film industry | NS television production

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

film.ns.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to film.ns.ca homepage info - get ready to check Film best content right away, or after learning these important things about film.ns.ca

Make your next film in Nova Scotia; located on Canada's Atlantic coast, Nova Scotia offers diverse and spectacular locations for both movie and television productions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Film.ns.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

film.ns.ca performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.708

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

film-television-production

1182 ms

js

101 ms

system.base.css

48 ms

system.menus.css

79 ms

system.messages.css

198 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Film.ns.ca, 4% (4 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 3% (3 requests) were made to I.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Novascotiabusiness.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Film.ns.ca main page is 5.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 107.2 kB

  • Original 126.9 kB
  • After minification 117.4 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. 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 107.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Film images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 115.6 kB
  • After minification 113.3 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 66.5 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. Film.ns.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (66%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Film. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

film.ns.ca accessibility score

83

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

film.ns.ca best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

film.ns.ca SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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