Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

sylvandirectory.com

Sylvan Lake Business Guide | Sylvan Lake Business Guide

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

881 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sylvandirectory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 881 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sylvandirectory.com performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.295

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.slbg.ca

881 ms

gtm.js

141 ms

fileinput.css

102 ms

font-awesome-4-7-0.min.css

258 ms

style.min.css

527 ms

Our browser made a total of 202 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Sylvandirectory.com, 5% (11 requests) were made to Weatherwidget.io and 1% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (881 ms) relates to the external source Slbg.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (7%)

Content Size

32.2 MB

After Optimization

30.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sylvandirectory.com main page is 32.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 31.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-96%

Potential reduce by 676.2 kB

  • Original 701.2 kB
  • After minification 610.0 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 91.2 kB, which is 13% 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 676.2 kB or 96% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 31.4 MB
  • After minification 30.0 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. Sylvan Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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

-69%

Potential reduce by 68.2 kB

  • Original 98.5 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 30.3 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. Sylvandirectory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 68.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (12%)

Requests Now

197

After Optimization

173

The browser has sent 197 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sylvan Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sylvandirectory.com accessibility score

79

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sylvandirectory.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sylvandirectory.com SEO score

85

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

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 Sylvandirectory.com 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 Sylvandirectory.com 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 Sylvan Directory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: