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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

novascotiagenealogy.com

Nova Scotia Archives - Nova Scotia Births, Marriages, and Deaths

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

207 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Novascotiagenealogy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 207 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

novascotiagenealogy.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

82/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

novascotiagenealogy.com

207 ms

www.novascotiagenealogy.com

544 ms

mainstyle.css

81 ms

WebResource.axd

177 ms

WebResource.axd

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Novascotiagenealogy.com, 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (544 ms) belongs to the original domain Novascotiagenealogy.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

286.9 kB

After Optimization

197.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Novascotiagenealogy.com main page is 286.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 180.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 7.9 kB, which is 34% 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 18.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 180.1 kB
  • After minification 161.7 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. Nova Scotia Genealogy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 51.9 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 37.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Novascotiagenealogy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (23%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nova Scotia Genealogy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

novascotiagenealogy.com

novascotiagenealogy.com

207 ms

www.novascotiagenealogy.com

www.novascotiagenealogy.com

544 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

81 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

177 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

122 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

167 ms

NSHVS2012.jpg

NSHVS2012.jpg

232 ms

births.jpg

births.jpg

196 ms

marriages.jpg

marriages.jpg

83 ms

deaths.jpg

deaths.jpg

190 ms

NovaScotia.jpg

NovaScotia.jpg

130 ms

novascotiacom.jpg

novascotiacom.jpg

178 ms

ancestryca.jpg

ancestryca.jpg

130 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

45 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

Accessibility Review

novascotiagenealogy.com accessibility score

87

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

novascotiagenealogy.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

novascotiagenealogy.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Novascotiagenealogy.com 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 Novascotiagenealogy.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

novascotiagenealogy.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nova Scotia Genealogy. 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: