Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

sidney.ca

Town of Sidney

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

561 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

sidney.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to sidney.ca homepage info - get ready to check Sidney best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about sidney.ca

Explore the Town of Sidney's homepage for seamless access to essential services. Stay updated with accessibility plan, parks and more.

Visit sidney.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Sidney.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 561 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Sidney.ca rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

sidney.ca performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

www.sidney.ca

561 ms

ip-utilities.js

583 ms

css

28 ms

PageTypes.css

754 ms

default.css

360 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Sidney.ca, 12% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sidney.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.1 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Sidney.ca main page is 1.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 21.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 77.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Sidney images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 176.3 kB

  • Original 338.7 kB
  • After minification 327.8 kB
  • After compression 162.3 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 176.3 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 171.3 kB

  • Original 200.1 kB
  • After minification 163.3 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. Sidney.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 171.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sidney. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sidney.ca SEO score

0

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 Sidney.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 Sidney.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 Sidney. 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: