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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

scouts.ca

Scouts Canada

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

272 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scouts.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 11.1 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

scouts.ca performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.371

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scouts.ca

280 ms

www.scouts.ca

1442 ms

css_a6558ee5e0efdf185719d57d3c0a5c3c.css

170 ms

js_5b97262d90aaeef0012c7489d114a2d0.js

194 ms

swfobject_modified.js

1195 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Scouts.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Sp.analytics.yahoo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scouts.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scouts.ca main page is 3.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 58.6 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 48.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 140.3 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Scouts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 127.3 kB

  • Original 188.0 kB
  • After minification 159.8 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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 127.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Scouts.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 83.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scouts. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

scouts.ca

scouts.ca

280 ms

www.scouts.ca

www.scouts.ca

1442 ms

css_a6558ee5e0efdf185719d57d3c0a5c3c.css

css_a6558ee5e0efdf185719d57d3c0a5c3c.css

170 ms

js_5b97262d90aaeef0012c7489d114a2d0.js

js_5b97262d90aaeef0012c7489d114a2d0.js

194 ms

swfobject_modified.js

swfobject_modified.js

1195 ms

spp.pl

spp.pl

156 ms

green_leaves_bkgd.jpg

green_leaves_bkgd.jpg

244 ms

logo.png

logo.png

113 ms

user-menu-bg-left.png

user-menu-bg-left.png

36 ms

user-menu-bg.png

user-menu-bg.png

111 ms

user-menu-bg-right.png

user-menu-bg-right.png

112 ms

arrow_white.png

arrow_white.png

112 ms

nav_bkgd.png

nav_bkgd.png

111 ms

nav_bkgd_red.png

nav_bkgd_red.png

145 ms

slide_cj17-register.png

slide_cj17-register.png

1751 ms

slider_more.png

slider_more.png

146 ms

slide_safetyweek-2016-en.png

slide_safetyweek-2016-en.png

1689 ms

slide_Blog-en.png

slide_Blog-en.png

1578 ms

slide_retail-oas-cards-2016.png

slide_retail-oas-cards-2016.png

1749 ms

slide_cp-animation.jpg

slide_cp-animation.jpg

1954 ms

slide_realscouts-en_0.png

slide_realscouts-en_0.png

1870 ms

join_hder.png

join_hder.png

1715 ms

escape-homepg.png

escape-homepg.png

1862 ms

b-promote-canadianpath-2.png

b-promote-canadianpath-2.png

1792 ms

b-promote-scoutshop.png

b-promote-scoutshop.png

1777 ms

b-promote-thanks-2012.png

b-promote-thanks-2012.png

1800 ms

b-promote-cj17.jpg

b-promote-cj17.jpg

1816 ms

b-promote-myscouts-2012.png

b-promote-myscouts-2012.png

1823 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

1841 ms

wosm-logo-sm.png

wosm-logo-sm.png

1845 ms

sdc-logo-sm.png

sdc-logo-sm.png

1862 ms

ActivityServer.bs

ActivityServer.bs

23 ms

bliss2r-webfont.woff

bliss2r-webfont.woff

1878 ms

folks-normal-webfont.woff

folks-normal-webfont.woff

1871 ms

bliss2b-webfont.woff

bliss2b-webfont.woff

1876 ms

bliss2li-webfont.woff

bliss2li-webfont.woff

1890 ms

folks-bold-webfont.woff

folks-bold-webfont.woff

1913 ms

side-callout-bg.png

side-callout-bg.png

1873 ms

side-callout-leaf.png

side-callout-leaf.png

1874 ms

btn-bg.png

btn-bg.png

1874 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

1897 ms

arrow_orange.png

arrow_orange.png

1898 ms

footer_social.png

footer_social.png

1898 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

79 ms

slider_pager.png

slider_pager.png

1846 ms

extlink.png

extlink.png

1852 ms

logo_mini.jpg

logo_mini.jpg

1852 ms

loading_animation.gif

loading_animation.gif

1854 ms

controls.png

controls.png

1867 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

mailto.png

mailto.png

1833 ms

friends.jpg

friends.jpg

1421 ms

css_aab1767721c3f9db25b51c43d1cf00db.css

css_aab1767721c3f9db25b51c43d1cf00db.css

24 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

1733 ms

Accessibility Review

scouts.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

scouts.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scouts.ca SEO score

82

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

robots.txt is not valid

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

    CA

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scouts.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Catalan language. Our system also found out that Scouts.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

scouts.ca

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