Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

waterlooairport.ca

Region of Waterloo International Airport

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

waterlooairport.ca screenshot

About Website

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

The Region of Waterloo International Airport (YKF) is a full-service, customer-friendly facility that supports commercial, corporate and general aviation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterlooairport.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 1.9 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

waterlooairport.ca performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,050 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterlooairport.ca

139 ms

www.waterlooairport.ca

103 ms

177 ms

base.css

91 ms

structure.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Waterlooairport.ca, 2% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Us2.siteimprove.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (635 ms) belongs to the original domain Waterlooairport.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 691.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Waterlooairport.ca main page is 3.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 29.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 194.5 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Waterloo Airport images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 402.6 kB

  • Original 549.5 kB
  • After minification 459.3 kB
  • After compression 146.9 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 402.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 78.6 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. Waterlooairport.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (42%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterloo Airport. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

waterlooairport.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

waterlooairport.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

waterlooairport.ca SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Waterlooairport.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 Waterlooairport.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 Waterloo Airport. 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: