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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

northwinds.net

Northwinds Net

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

711 ms

Page Rendered

113 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwinds.net page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 824 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northwinds.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northwinds.net

253 ms

stylesheet.css

42 ms

International_Falls.gif

459 ms

datetime.js

74 ms

webmail.js

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Northwinds.net, 6% (1 request) were made to Banners.wunderground.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (459 ms) relates to the external source Banners.wunderground.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.5 kB (33%)

Content Size

91.1 kB

After Optimization

60.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northwinds.net main page is 91.1 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 64.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. 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 19.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 55.3 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. Obviously, Northwinds needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 957 B

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 624 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 957 B or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 597 B

  • Original 855 B
  • After minification 590 B
  • After compression 258 B

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. Northwinds.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 597 B or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (41%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

northwinds.net

northwinds.net

253 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

42 ms

International_Falls.gif

International_Falls.gif

459 ms

datetime.js

datetime.js

74 ms

webmail.js

webmail.js

81 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

92 ms

nw_180x40.jpg

nw_180x40.jpg

124 ms

Logo_40wht.gif

Logo_40wht.gif

17 ms

webbased1_228x7.jpg

webbased1_228x7.jpg

51 ms

ecru10L.jpg

ecru10L.jpg

72 ms

green10L.jpg

green10L.jpg

77 ms

green10R.jpg

green10R.jpg

83 ms

welcome_325x45.gif

welcome_325x45.gif

100 ms

webbased2_228x30.jpg

webbased2_228x30.jpg

95 ms

ecru10R.jpg

ecru10R.jpg

114 ms

toptenvideo3_150x72.gif

toptenvideo3_150x72.gif

123 ms

uniquephotoworks.jpg

uniquephotoworks.jpg

212 ms

tcf_150x60_071206.gif

tcf_150x60_071206.gif

135 ms

Accessibility Review

northwinds.net accessibility score

63

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

northwinds.net best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

northwinds.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northwinds.net 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 Northwinds.net 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

northwinds.net

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