Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

lotsix.ca

Welcome | Lot Six Bar & Restaurant | Halifax, Nova Scotia

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

953 ms

Page Rendered

357 ms

lotsix.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit lotsix.ca now to see the best up-to-date Lot Six content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about lotsix.ca

Inspired by the great bars of the world, Lot Six is large and lively, combining historical details with modern flair in the heart of downtown Halifax. We specialize in seasonal cocktails, oysters, sma...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lotsix.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lotsix.ca performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lotsix.ca

247 ms

site-new.css

122 ms

css

17 ms

modernizr.custom.js

125 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.js

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Lotsix.ca, 13% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (518 ms) belongs to the original domain Lotsix.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.4 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Lotsix.ca main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 967.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 10.0 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 1.1 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 6.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 419 B

  • Original 967.2 kB
  • After minification 966.8 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. Lot Six images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 312.4 kB

  • Original 397.3 kB
  • After minification 263.2 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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 312.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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. Lotsix.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (37%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lot Six. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lotsix.ca accessibility score

48

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

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

lotsix.ca 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

lotsix.ca SEO score

98

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 Lotsix.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 Lotsix.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 Lot Six. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: