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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

hydroottawa.com

Hydro Ottawa

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

938 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Hydro Ottawa content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hydroottawa.com

Hydro Ottawa delivers electricity to more than 335,000 homes and businesses in Ottawa and Casselman. For 100 years, Hydro Ottawa has reliably supplied its customers with power, building and investing ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hydroottawa.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hydroottawa.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.001

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hydroottawa.com

107 ms

hydroottawa.com

180 ms

main.css

36 ms

jquery-2.1.1.js

118 ms

moment.min.js

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Hydroottawa.com, 37% (27 requests) were made to Static.hydroottawa.com and 11% (8 requests) were made to A.tiles.mapbox.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) relates to the external source Static.hydroottawa.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 613.4 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hydroottawa.com main page is 3.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.8 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 56.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Hydro Ottawa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 362.2 kB

  • Original 532.1 kB
  • After minification 529.6 kB
  • After compression 169.9 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 362.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 147.4 kB

  • Original 178.4 kB
  • After minification 177.8 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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. Hydroottawa.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (35%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hydro Ottawa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hydroottawa.com

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107 ms

hydroottawa.com

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180 ms

main.css

main.css

36 ms

jquery-2.1.1.js

jquery-2.1.1.js

118 ms

moment.min.js

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195 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

25 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

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148 ms

header.js

header.js

139 ms

hero-unit.js

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138 ms

mapbox.js

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84 ms

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74 ms

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137 ms

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138 ms

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13 ms

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61 ms

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71 ms

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293 ms

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264 ms

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Accessibility Review

hydroottawa.com accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

hydroottawa.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hydroottawa.com SEO score

99

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 Hydroottawa.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 Hydroottawa.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

hydroottawa.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hydro Ottawa. 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: