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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

saltspringisland.org

A Guide to Salt Spring Island BC Canada

Page Load Speed

733 ms in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

451 ms

Page Rendered

165 ms

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About Website

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A visitor's guide to Salt Spring Island, largest of the BC's Southern Gulf Islands. Accommodation guide, business listings and tourist information for Salt Spring Island.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saltspringisland.org page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 616 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

saltspringisland.org performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saltspringisland.org

117 ms

www.saltspringisland.org

176 ms

ssi.css

74 ms

analytics.js

5 ms

ssi_lilly_pads.jpg

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Saltspringisland.org, 20% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (176 ms) belongs to the original domain Saltspringisland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.4 kB (39%)

Content Size

110.1 kB

After Optimization

66.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saltspringisland.org main page is 110.1 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 52.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 12.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 9.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 868 B

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 41.4 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. Salt Spring Island images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 954 B
  • After compression 277 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. Saltspringisland.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Salt Spring Island. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

saltspringisland.org

saltspringisland.org

117 ms

www.saltspringisland.org

www.saltspringisland.org

176 ms

ssi.css

ssi.css

74 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

5 ms

ssi_lilly_pads.jpg

ssi_lilly_pads.jpg

38 ms

robert_bateman_northern_reflections_loon_family.gif

robert_bateman_northern_reflections_loon_family.gif

38 ms

IM000264-half-mskd.jpg

IM000264-half-mskd.jpg

140 ms

bear-sign.gif

bear-sign.gif

73 ms

IM000268.jpg

IM000268.jpg

143 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

Accessibility Review

saltspringisland.org accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

saltspringisland.org 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

saltspringisland.org SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saltspringisland.org 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 Saltspringisland.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

saltspringisland.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Salt Spring Island. 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: