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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

polaronsolar.com

Polaron Makes It Easy To Go Solar — Canada's #1 Home Solar Installer

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

372 ms

Resources Loaded

11.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to polaronsolar.com homepage info - get ready to check Polaron Solar best content right away, or after learning these important things about polaronsolar.com

#1 residential solar installer. For 10+ years, Polaron has endured as the largest solar company in Canada—with over 8,000 installs across the nation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polaronsolar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 372 ms and then it took 12.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

polaronsolar.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polaronsolar.com

372 ms

polaronsolar.com

1031 ms

gtm.js

90 ms

js

160 ms

bootstrap.min.css

640 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (100 requests) were addressed to the original Polaronsolar.com, 14% (29 requests) were made to Google.com and 14% (29 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Polaronsolar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (6%)

Content Size

16.8 MB

After Optimization

15.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Polaronsolar.com main page is 16.8 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 15.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 330.7 kB

  • Original 423.7 kB
  • After minification 386.9 kB
  • After compression 93.0 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 330.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 137.5 kB

  • Original 15.4 MB
  • After minification 15.2 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. Polaron Solar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 168.2 kB

  • Original 492.2 kB
  • After minification 475.6 kB
  • After compression 324.0 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 168.2 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 424.0 kB

  • Original 503.0 kB
  • After minification 420.8 kB
  • After compression 79.0 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. Polaronsolar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 424.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (41%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

107

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polaron Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

polaronsolar.com

polaronsolar.com

372 ms

polaronsolar.com

polaronsolar.com

1031 ms

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gtm.js

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160 ms

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bootstrap.min.css

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commonStyle.css

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devicePixelRatio.js

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400 ms

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186 ms

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310 ms

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75 ms

lunboTest.html

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175 ms

embed

embed

211 ms

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embed

283 ms

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embed

306 ms

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embed

304 ms

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embed

340 ms

we.svg

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178 ms

bill.jpg

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262 ms

protection-copy.jpg

protection-copy.jpg

304 ms

planet.jpg

planet.jpg

386 ms

incentives.jpg

incentives.jpg

188 ms

solar_calculator.jpg

solar_calculator.jpg

1100 ms

history.png

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262 ms

afterservice.jpg

afterservice.jpg

261 ms

top-tire.jpg

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387 ms

history.jpg

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390 ms

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mapright.svg

387 ms

Home_Services.png

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584 ms

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466 ms

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team-pic-circle.png

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704 ms

right.svg

right.svg

584 ms

wrong.svg

wrong.svg

586 ms

Alberta.jpg

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588 ms

Nova.jpg

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588 ms

PEI-1-1.jpg

PEI-1-1.jpg

642 ms

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643 ms

bc.png

bc.png

1095 ms

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702 ms

EnergyEfficiencyAlberta.png

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748 ms

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883 ms

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958 ms

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2548 ms

network-of-excellence-logo.png

network-of-excellence-logo.png

886 ms

osea.png

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1211 ms

pca.png

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1391 ms

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1077 ms

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113 ms

PreReqPeram

PreReqPeram

424 ms

css

css

75 ms

negotiate

negotiate

239 ms

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js

98 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

1152 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1014 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

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bootstrap.min.js

1229 ms

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js

56 ms

devicePixelRatio.js

devicePixelRatio.js

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js

39 ms

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gen_204

gen_204

92 ms

init_embed.js

init_embed.js

96 ms

Canadian-Solar.png

Canadian-Solar.png

1036 ms

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LongiSolar.png

1049 ms

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1063 ms

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lunbo1.png

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slider-right.svg

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common.js

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util.js

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map.js

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overlay.js

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onion.js

51 ms

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StaticMapService.GetMapImage

73 ms

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StaticMapService.GetMapImage

204 ms

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137 ms

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135 ms

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131 ms

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103 ms

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6548 ms

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start

68 ms

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ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

49 ms

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47 ms

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ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

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AuthenticationService.Authenticate

24 ms

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167 ms

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controls.js

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css

94 ms

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Accessibility Review

polaronsolar.com accessibility score

53

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

polaronsolar.com best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

polaronsolar.com SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

polaronsolar.com

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