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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

groundswellgroup.ca

Groundswell Group Inc.

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

988 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groundswellgroup.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groundswellgroup.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.296

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.groundswellgroup.ca

115 ms

webfont.js

7 ms

layerslider.css

82 ms

styles.css

63 ms

settings.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Groundswellgroup.ca, 2% (1 request) were made to 0. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (507 ms) belongs to the original domain Groundswellgroup.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.4 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Groundswellgroup.ca main page is 2.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 158.7 kB

  • Original 185.2 kB
  • After minification 124.5 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 60.7 kB, which is 33% 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 158.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Groundswell Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17 B

  • Original 655 B
  • After minification 655 B
  • After compression 638 B

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

-11%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 95.0 kB
  • After compression 84.4 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. Groundswellgroup.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (67%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Groundswell Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.groundswellgroup.ca

www.groundswellgroup.ca

115 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

7 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

82 ms

styles.css

styles.css

63 ms

settings.css

settings.css

83 ms

style.css

style.css

61 ms

base.css

base.css

104 ms

layout.css

layout.css

126 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

185 ms

animations.min.css

animations.min.css

158 ms

jquery.ui.all.css

jquery.ui.all.css

147 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

154 ms

jplayer.blue.monday.css

jplayer.blue.monday.css

155 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

159 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

236 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

202 ms

greensock.js

greensock.js

245 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

269 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

213 ms

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

280 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

279 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

326 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

336 ms

www.groundswellgroup.ca

www.groundswellgroup.ca

332 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

391 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

353 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

286 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

330 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

384 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

439 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

365 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

368 ms

sortable.min.js

sortable.min.js

440 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

440 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

440 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

507 ms

menu.js

menu.js

440 ms

animations.min.js

animations.min.js

457 ms

jplayer.min.js

jplayer.min.js

476 ms

translate3d.js

translate3d.js

437 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

460 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

425 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

429 ms

logo.png

logo.png

235 ms

online-casinos.jpeg

online-casinos.jpeg

431 ms

Blogs-and-Articles-home2.jpg

Blogs-and-Articles-home2.jpg

279 ms

News-and-Events-home2.jpg

News-and-Events-home2.jpg

257 ms

Case-Studies-home2.jpg

Case-Studies-home2.jpg

270 ms

calgary-hover.jpg

calgary-hover.jpg

323 ms

edmonton-hover.jpg

edmonton-hover.jpg

349 ms

vancouver-hover.jpg

vancouver-hover.jpg

413 ms

seattle-hover.jpg

seattle-hover.jpg

418 ms

logo-rodape.png

logo-rodape.png

337 ms

logAlbertas.png

logAlbertas.png

395 ms

P500_DATE_2014.png

P500_DATE_2014.png

413 ms

P500_DATE_2015.png

P500_DATE_2015.png

420 ms

stripes_3_b.png

stripes_3_b.png

379 ms

box_shadow_button.png

box_shadow_button.png

393 ms

mfn-icons.woff

mfn-icons.woff

392 ms

box_shadow.png

box_shadow.png

346 ms

Accessibility Review

groundswellgroup.ca accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

groundswellgroup.ca best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

groundswellgroup.ca SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Groundswellgroup.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 Groundswellgroup.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

groundswellgroup.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Groundswell Group. 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: