Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 81% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

opennorth.ca

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

Page Load Speed

944 ms in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

406 ms

Page Rendered

494 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Opennorth.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 900 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

opennorth.ca performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

opennorth.ca

44 ms

opennorth.ca

102 ms

gtm.js

62 ms

js

104 ms

style.min.css

41 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Opennorth.ca, 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (152 ms) belongs to the original domain Opennorth.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

450.6 kB

After Optimization

380.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Opennorth.ca main page is 450.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 376.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 64.0 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.5 kB, which is 14% 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 60.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 376.1 kB
  • After minification 366.4 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. Open North images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (32%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 28 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

opennorth.ca accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

opennorth.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

SEO Factors

opennorth.ca SEO score

86

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

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

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Open North. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: