Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

switchpower.ca

Switch Power - Alberta Based Independent Power Producer

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

701 ms

switchpower.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to switchpower.ca homepage info - get ready to check Switch Power best content right away, or after learning these important things about switchpower.ca

Learn more about Switch Power, the Alberta based Independent Power Producer, focused on sustainable energy power generation

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switchpower.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

switchpower.ca performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.123

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switchpower.ca

98 ms

switchpower.ca

3949 ms

style.min.css

110 ms

styles.css

128 ms

uncode-privacy-public.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Switchpower.ca, 26% (15 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Switchpower.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 121.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Switchpower.ca main page is 4.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 86.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 16 B

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Switch Power images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.3 kB

  • Original 733.0 kB
  • After minification 733.0 kB
  • After compression 707.7 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 154.9 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 144.7 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. Switchpower.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (66%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switch Power. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

switchpower.ca accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

switchpower.ca best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

switchpower.ca SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Switchpower.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Switchpower.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 Switch Power. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: