Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

gloucesterhousing.ca

Rental Housing | Ottawa | Gloucester Housing Corporation

Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

11.7 sec

Page Rendered

71 ms

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About Website

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Gloucester Housing Corporation is a not for profit organization that was developed in the 1980’s in response to a need for affordable housing in Ottawa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gloucesterhousing.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gloucesterhousing.ca performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gloucesterhousing.ca

73 ms

minified.js

35 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

34 ms

polyfill.min.js

11050 ms

thunderbolt-commons.eb770ee8.bundle.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Gloucesterhousing.ca, 53% (20 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 32% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.8 kB (57%)

Content Size

777.3 kB

After Optimization

336.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Gloucesterhousing.ca main page is 777.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 452.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 352.2 kB

  • Original 452.8 kB
  • After minification 451.3 kB
  • After compression 100.5 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 352.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 14.7 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, Gloucester Housing needs image optimization as it can save up to 85.9 kB or 85% 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 2.7 kB

  • Original 224.0 kB
  • After minification 224.0 kB
  • After compression 221.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (56%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gloucester Housing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gloucesterhousing.ca accessibility score

90

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gloucesterhousing.ca best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gloucesterhousing.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Gloucesterhousing.ca 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 Gloucesterhousing.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 Gloucester Housing. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: