Tools & Wizards About Us
mississauga.ca screenshot

Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

mississauga.ca

City of Mississauga

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

181 ms

mississauga.ca screenshot

About Website

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

The official website of the City of Mississauga. Find information about Council, policies and by-laws, City services, programs, facilities, events and attractions, and projects.

Visit mississauga.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Mississauga.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mississauga.ca performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.192

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mississauga.ca

141 ms

home

86 ms

home

600 ms

ga.js

30 ms

global3.css

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Mississauga.ca, 10% (7 requests) were made to Www7.mississauga.ca and 7% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (600 ms) belongs to the original domain Mississauga.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 437.7 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mississauga.ca main page is 1.5 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 750.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 75.8 kB
  • After minification 60.9 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 14.8 kB, which is 20% 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 62.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 750.5 kB
  • After minification 702.0 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. Mississauga images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 233.1 kB

  • Original 410.0 kB
  • After minification 357.6 kB
  • After compression 176.9 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 233.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 93.5 kB

  • Original 218.4 kB
  • After minification 201.5 kB
  • After compression 125.0 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. Mississauga.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.5 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (40%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mississauga. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mississauga.ca

mississauga.ca

141 ms

home

home

86 ms

home

home

600 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

global3.css

global3.css

152 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

8 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

13 ms

global.js

global.js

154 ms

window.js

window.js

115 ms

datePicker.js

datePicker.js

167 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

81 ms

global_home3.css

global_home3.css

221 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

topnav.js

topnav.js

158 ms

element.js

element.js

48 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

191 ms

banner.style_screen.css

banner.style_screen.css

77 ms

E98967B363A0C6CC4.css

E98967B363A0C6CC4.css

255 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

281 ms

jquery.siteFeature.js

jquery.siteFeature.js

191 ms

footertabs.js

footertabs.js

109 ms

gateway.min.js

gateway.min.js

20 ms

bg_white_margin.png

bg_white_margin.png

100 ms

registration-ecitybanner.png

registration-ecitybanner.png

180 ms

servicesNHP_off2.png

servicesNHP_off2.png

99 ms

city_hallNHP_off2.png

city_hallNHP_off2.png

96 ms

residentsNHP_off2.png

residentsNHP_off2.png

99 ms

businessNHP_off2.png

businessNHP_off2.png

100 ms

discoverNHP_off2.png

discoverNHP_off2.png

101 ms

swc_ecity_517x237.png

swc_ecity_517x237.png

189 ms

camera-icon.png

camera-icon.png

173 ms

img-3.gif

img-3.gif

172 ms

img-homefooter-lrt.jpg

img-homefooter-lrt.jpg

174 ms

img-homefooter-ipc.jpg

img-homefooter-ipc.jpg

174 ms

img-homefooter-lakeview.jpg

img-homefooter-lakeview.jpg

175 ms

img-homefooter-dt.jpg

img-homefooter-dt.jpg

275 ms

Vision_Cooksville-Mar_7-2016.png

Vision_Cooksville-Mar_7-2016.png

170 ms

Code_and_the_City-2016.gif

Code_and_the_City-2016.gif

166 ms

Culture-Maple_Magic-2016.jpg

Culture-Maple_Magic-2016.jpg

175 ms

MiWay-Go_Paperless-2016.png

MiWay-Go_Paperless-2016.png

169 ms

Winter_Maintenance.jpg

Winter_Maintenance.jpg

173 ms

header-bg.gif

header-bg.gif

296 ms

logo.png

logo.png

295 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

60 ms

main.js

main.js

87 ms

foresee_trigger.js

foresee_trigger.js

22 ms

bg-header.gif

bg-header.gif

183 ms

bg-button.jpg

bg-button.jpg

183 ms

bg-button-2.jpg

bg-button-2.jpg

184 ms

bg-drop.gif

bg-drop.gif

211 ms

jsonip.com

jsonip.com

200 ms

bg-tabs.gif

bg-tabs.gif

161 ms

ico-facebook.gif

ico-facebook.gif

166 ms

ico-twitter.gif

ico-twitter.gif

175 ms

ico-youtobe.gif

ico-youtobe.gif

210 ms

ico-rss.gif

ico-rss.gif

215 ms

ico-view.gif

ico-view.gif

222 ms

bg-tab-content.jpg

bg-tab-content.jpg

229 ms

bg-links.png

bg-links.png

247 ms

homefooter-arrow-1.gif

homefooter-arrow-1.gif

251 ms

homefooter-arrow-2.gif

homefooter-arrow-2.gif

284 ms

logo-small.png

logo-small.png

296 ms

arrow-left.png

arrow-left.png

297 ms

tab-nav-arrows.gif

tab-nav-arrows.gif

309 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

48 ms

translate_24dp.png

translate_24dp.png

71 ms

l

l

43 ms

cleardot.gif

cleardot.gif

58 ms

te_ctrl3.gif

te_ctrl3.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

mississauga.ca accessibility score

94

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.

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

mississauga.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

mississauga.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mississauga.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 Mississauga.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

mississauga.ca

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