Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

sharetheway.ca

Share The Way | United Way of St. Catharines & District

Page Load Speed

908 ms in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

608 ms

Page Rendered

115 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharetheway.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 723 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

sharetheway.ca performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sharetheway.ca

185 ms

main.min.css

74 ms

css

30 ms

css

46 ms

font-awesome.min.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Sharetheway.ca, 22% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Sharetheway.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 213.9 kB (55%)

Content Size

388.0 kB

After Optimization

174.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sharetheway.ca main page is 388.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 210.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 872 B, which is 11% 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 5.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 82.0 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. Share The Way images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 136.3 kB

  • Original 210.9 kB
  • After minification 210.9 kB
  • After compression 74.6 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 136.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 72.0 kB

  • Original 87.3 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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. Sharetheway.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 72.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (50%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Share The Way. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sharetheway.ca accessibility score

70

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.

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

sharetheway.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

SEO Factors

sharetheway.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sharetheway.ca 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 Sharetheway.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 Share The Way. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: