Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

sasklibraries.ca

Saskatchewan Information Library Services Consortium

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

586 ms

Page Rendered

385 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sasklibraries.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 971 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

sasklibraries.ca performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sasklibraries.ca

307 ms

system.base.css

18 ms

system.messages.css

18 ms

system.theme.css

19 ms

comment.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Sasklibraries.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (307 ms) belongs to the original domain Sasklibraries.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 503.1 kB (70%)

Content Size

722.3 kB

After Optimization

219.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Sasklibraries.ca main page is 722.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 379.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 18.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 74.4 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. Obviously, Sasklibraries needs image optimization as it can save up to 15.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 279.1 kB

  • Original 379.9 kB
  • After minification 335.1 kB
  • After compression 100.7 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 279.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 189.7 kB

  • Original 228.0 kB
  • After minification 214.3 kB
  • After compression 38.2 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. Sasklibraries.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 189.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (67%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sasklibraries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sasklibraries.ca accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sasklibraries.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sasklibraries.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

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

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 Sasklibraries.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 Sasklibraries.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 description is not detected on the main page of Sasklibraries. 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: