Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

starofthenorth.ca

Home | Star of the North Retreat Centre

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

305 ms

starofthenorth.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Starofthenorth.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

starofthenorth.ca performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

starofthenorth.ca

100 ms

www.starofthenorth.ca

417 ms

css

46 ms

font-awesome.min.css

36 ms

typography.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Starofthenorth.ca, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (434 ms) belongs to the original domain Starofthenorth.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

966.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Starofthenorth.ca main page is 1.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 740.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. 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 20.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 740.8 kB
  • After minification 681.9 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. Star Ofthe North images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 270.1 kB
  • After minification 270.1 kB
  • After compression 251.4 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 30.8 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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. Starofthenorth.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (63%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Star Ofthe North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

starofthenorth.ca accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

starofthenorth.ca best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

starofthenorth.ca SEO score

83

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Starofthenorth.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 Starofthenorth.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 Star Ofthe North. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: