Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

yourottawaregion.com

Under Construction yourottawaregion.com

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

705 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yourottawaregion.com page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yourottawaregion.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.12

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yourottawaregion.com

44 ms

www.ottawacommunitynews.com

28 ms

66 ms

font-awesome.min.css

7 ms

font-awesome.min.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 256 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Yourottawaregion.com, 23% (58 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com and 14% (37 requests) were made to Ottawacommunitynews.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Widget.local.ottawacommunitynews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (26%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Yourottawaregion.com main page is 8.8 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 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 178.5 kB

  • Original 232.8 kB
  • After minification 190.1 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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 42.7 kB, which is 18% 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 178.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Yourottawaregion images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 588.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.6 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 476.0 kB

  • Original 580.5 kB
  • After minification 553.8 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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. Yourottawaregion.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 476.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (45%)

Requests Now

239

After Optimization

131

The browser has sent 239 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yourottawaregion. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yourottawaregion.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

yourottawaregion.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

yourottawaregion.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

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Yourottawaregion.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 Yourottawaregion.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 description is not detected on the main page of Yourottawaregion. 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: