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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

opennorth.ca

17 ms

www.opennorth.ca

52 ms

foundation.min.css

86 ms

font-awesome.min.css

84 ms

css

116 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Opennorth.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (217 ms) belongs to the original domain Opennorth.ca.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Opennorth.ca main page is 1.3 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

Original 18.7 kB
After minification 16.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.4 kB, which is 13% 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 14.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 41.0 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.0 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. Open North images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

Original 28.8 kB
After minification 28.8 kB
After compression 23.4 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 5.4 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 162.5 kB

Original 189.8 kB
After minification 189.1 kB
After compression 27.4 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. Opennorth.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 162.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

EN
Encoding

UTF-8

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

opennorth.ca

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

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Open North – Data governance & digital strategy for the common good

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Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)