Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

garth.ca

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Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

76 ms

Resources Loaded

483 ms

Page Rendered

515 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Garth.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 76 ms and then it took 998 ms 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

garth.ca performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

garth.ca

76 ms

style.css

34 ms

css-custom.css

39 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

117 ms

ga.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Garth.ca, 36% (5 requests) were made to Archives.garth.ca and 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (277 ms) belongs to the original domain Garth.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

385.7 kB

After Optimization

314.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Garth.ca main page is 385.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 290.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 26.0 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. 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 16.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 290.1 kB
  • After minification 277.3 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. Garth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 50.9 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 26.4 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Garth.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garth. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

garth.ca accessibility score

71

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

garth.ca best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

garth.ca SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Garth.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 Garth.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 Garth. 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: