Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

hiwayflowers.ca

  Hiway Flowers | Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Baden, Breslau, ON - Local Florist

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

841 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

803 ms

hiwayflowers.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Hiway Flowers content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hiwayflowers.ca

Local florist in Kitchener, ON Canada that provides top quality custom flower arrangements for weddings, events, sympathy, anniversary and everyday flowers in Kitchener, Waterloo

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hiwayflowers.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 841 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hiwayflowers.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,730 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hiwayflowers.ca

841 ms

calendar.css

65 ms

styles-m.css

111 ms

styles-l.css

87 ms

require.min.js

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 193 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hiwayflowers.ca, 72% (138 requests) were made to Assets.floranext.com and 24% (46 requests) were made to Image.floranext.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Image.floranext.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 636.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

754.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Hiwayflowers.ca main page is 1.4 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. 80% 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 645.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 240.5 kB

  • Original 270.3 kB
  • After minification 232.0 kB
  • After compression 29.8 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 38.3 kB, which is 14% 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 240.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 385.4 kB

  • Original 645.3 kB
  • After minification 259.9 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. Obviously, Hiway Flowers needs image optimization as it can save up to 385.4 kB or 60% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 358.3 kB
  • After minification 357.9 kB
  • After compression 348.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 117.4 kB
  • After compression 116.4 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. Hiwayflowers.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 124 (69%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hiway Flowers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 122 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hiwayflowers.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hiwayflowers.ca best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hiwayflowers.ca SEO score

93

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 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 Hiwayflowers.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 Hiwayflowers.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 Hiway Flowers. 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: