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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

alt-consulting.ca

ALT - IT Support and IT Consulting in Ottawa - Home

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

324 ms

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About Website

Visit alt-consulting.ca now to see the best up-to-date ALT Consulting content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about alt-consulting.ca

ALT is an Ottawa Cloud, software and computer hardware consulting firm. Specializing in: Web and Database Development, Systems and Networks support.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alt-consulting.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alt-consulting.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alt-consulting.ca

88 ms

alt-consulting.ca

94 ms

starbeamsystems.com

547 ms

theme.9.css

173 ms

api.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Alt-consulting.ca, 58% (11 requests) were made to Starbeamsystems.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (547 ms) relates to the external source Starbeamsystems.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 535.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

907.3 kB

After Optimization

371.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alt-consulting.ca main page is 907.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 439.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 44.0 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.4 kB, which is 19% 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 36.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 21.4 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, ALT Consulting needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 145.2 kB

  • Original 439.0 kB
  • After minification 439.0 kB
  • After compression 293.8 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 145.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 349.9 kB

  • Original 398.7 kB
  • After minification 398.5 kB
  • After compression 48.8 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. Alt-consulting.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (54%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALT Consulting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alt-consulting.ca

alt-consulting.ca

88 ms

alt-consulting.ca

alt-consulting.ca

94 ms

starbeamsystems.com

starbeamsystems.com

547 ms

theme.9.css

theme.9.css

173 ms

api.js

api.js

43 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

146 ms

uikit-icons-devstack.min.js

uikit-icons-devstack.min.js

111 ms

theme.js

theme.js

71 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

41 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

100 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

206 ms

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89 ms

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87 ms

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website-logo-inverted-722d5e3a.png

86 ms

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87 ms

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87 ms

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88 ms

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92 ms

matomo.php

matomo.php

90 ms

Accessibility Review

alt-consulting.ca accessibility score

94

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.

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

alt-consulting.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alt-consulting.ca SEO score

92

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 Alt-consulting.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 Alt-consulting.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

alt-consulting.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ALT Consulting. 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: