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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

northernstrands.com

Mine Hoisting Solutions, Wire Rope and Rigging Supplier - Northern Strands, Saskatoon, Canada

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

180 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

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About Website

Welcome to northernstrands.com homepage info - get ready to check Northern Strands best content right away, or after learning these important things about northernstrands.com

Established in 1970, Northern Strands has evolved into five major divisions - mine hoisting and attachments, general rigging, engineered fall protection, suspended access and training.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernstrands.com page load time and found that the first response time was 180 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northernstrands.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northernstrands.com

180 ms

www.northernstrands.com

427 ms

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

styles.css

102 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

152 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Northernstrands.com, 34% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (542 ms) belongs to the original domain Northernstrands.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northernstrands.com main page is 3.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 26.7 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 5.6 kB, which is 17% 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 24.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Northern Strands images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 55.0 kB
  • After compression 42.9 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 12.1 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 29.5 kB
  • After minification 29.5 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. Northernstrands.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.6 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (50%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Strands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northernstrands.com

northernstrands.com

180 ms

www.northernstrands.com

www.northernstrands.com

427 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

styles.css

styles.css

102 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

152 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

196 ms

js

js

66 ms

css

css

28 ms

css

css

43 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

66 ms

sa.js

sa.js

436 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

85 ms

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northernstrandslogo2.png

84 ms

lily.png

lily.png

84 ms

slide4.jpg

slide4.jpg

209 ms

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maw.png

115 ms

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cor.png

115 ms

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missionzero.png

115 ms

miningwirerope.jpg

miningwirerope.jpg

211 ms

mininghoist.jpg

mininghoist.jpg

163 ms

fallprotection.jpg

fallprotection.jpg

211 ms

fps.jpg

fps.jpg

259 ms

tc.jpg

tc.jpg

326 ms

medialibrary.jpg

medialibrary.jpg

372 ms

blog.jpg

blog.jpg

257 ms

image.axd

image.axd

542 ms

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facebook.png

260 ms

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twitter.png

325 ms

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youtube.png

325 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

325 ms

rss.png

rss.png

356 ms

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68 ms

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18 ms

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107 ms

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2 ms

N_Strands

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64 ms

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48 ms

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49 ms

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Accessibility Review

northernstrands.com accessibility score

94

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

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

Best Practices

northernstrands.com 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

northernstrands.com SEO score

88

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Northernstrands.com 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 Northernstrands.com 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

northernstrands.com

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