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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

northwestinstitute.ca

Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research

Page Load Speed

721 ms in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

337 ms

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

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The Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research has been working towards social and ecological sustainability in Northwest British Columbia since 1996.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwestinstitute.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 161 ms and then it took 560 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northwestinstitute.ca performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.201

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northwestinstitute.ca

161 ms

northwestinstitute.ca

58 ms

banner-new.jpg

121 ms

lng-thumb.jpg

59 ms

forests3-thumb.jpg

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Northwestinstitute.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (161 ms) belongs to the original domain Northwestinstitute.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

311.6 kB

After Optimization

303.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Northwestinstitute.ca main page is 311.6 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 307.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 2.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 307.4 kB
  • After minification 302.2 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. Northwest Institute images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northwest Institute. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

northwestinstitute.ca

northwestinstitute.ca

161 ms

northwestinstitute.ca

northwestinstitute.ca

58 ms

banner-new.jpg

banner-new.jpg

121 ms

lng-thumb.jpg

lng-thumb.jpg

59 ms

forests3-thumb.jpg

forests3-thumb.jpg

73 ms

bcmap.png

bcmap.png

63 ms

logo-new.png

logo-new.png

57 ms

Accessibility Review

northwestinstitute.ca accessibility score

51

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.

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

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

northwestinstitute.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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

northwestinstitute.ca SEO score

62

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Northwestinstitute.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 Northwestinstitute.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

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