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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

solaricity.ca

Solaricity | Solar panel installers in Toronto, the GTA and Southern Ontario | Home

Page Load Speed

926 ms in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

492 ms

Page Rendered

314 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solaricity.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 806 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

solaricity.ca performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solaricity.ca

120 ms

mainnew.css

14 ms

addthis_widget.js

127 ms

pro_dropdown_2.css

16 ms

stuHover.js

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Solaricity.ca, 21% (7 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (138 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

289.6 kB

After Optimization

240.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solaricity.ca main page is 289.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 255.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 9.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 38.9 kB

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 216.2 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, Solaricity needs image optimization as it can save up to 38.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 647 B

  • Original 18.8 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 467 B

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 2.1 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Solaricity.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 467 B or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solaricity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

solaricity.ca

solaricity.ca

120 ms

mainnew.css

mainnew.css

14 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

127 ms

pro_dropdown_2.css

pro_dropdown_2.css

16 ms

stuHover.js

stuHover.js

6 ms

image_changer_XML.js

image_changer_XML.js

16 ms

SolaricityLogo.png

SolaricityLogo.png

18 ms

tag1v2.png

tag1v2.png

24 ms

BG.png

BG.png

8 ms

ContainerBG.png

ContainerBG.png

8 ms

News.png

News.png

9 ms

Sun29.4.png

Sun29.4.png

11 ms

Go-Button.png

Go-Button.png

17 ms

solar-planet.jpg

solar-planet.jpg

17 ms

StandUpForSolar.png

StandUpForSolar.png

17 ms

three_1t.gif

three_1t.gif

50 ms

ga.js

ga.js

12 ms

three_1at.gif

three_1at.gif

47 ms

three_0t.gif

three_0t.gif

47 ms

three_0at.gif

three_0at.gif

48 ms

RSSBG.png

RSSBG.png

11 ms

SUFSBG.png

SUFSBG.png

10 ms

BottomBG.png

BottomBG.png

48 ms

likebox.php

likebox.php

138 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

07R8eGzDB3q.css

07R8eGzDB3q.css

13 ms

nDOmhvCeUjd.js

nDOmhvCeUjd.js

22 ms

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8ZrPme2EwKH.js

19 ms

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22 ms

6YoohIfomow.js

6YoohIfomow.js

20 ms

p55HfXW__mM.js

p55HfXW__mM.js

21 ms

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299195564_188017626926321_8799558490927804847_n.jpg

27 ms

UXtr_j2Fwe-.png

UXtr_j2Fwe-.png

6 ms

Accessibility Review

solaricity.ca accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

solaricity.ca best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

solaricity.ca SEO score

50

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    US-ASCII

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solaricity.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 Solaricity.ca main page’s claimed encoding is us-ascii. 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

solaricity.ca

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