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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

aurorawatch.ca

Aurora Watch - Home

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Aurora Watch content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about aurorawatch.ca

Forecast of the Aurora or Northern Lights for the Edmonton region (and similar magnetic latitudes).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aurorawatch.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aurorawatch.ca performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,340 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aurorawatch.ca

26 ms

aurorawatch.ca

852 ms

js

50 ms

template_css.css

46 ms

stylechanger.js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Aurorawatch.ca, 33% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Autumn.athabascau.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Aurorawatch.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.6 kB (50%)

Content Size

697.9 kB

After Optimization

348.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aurorawatch.ca main page is 697.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 647.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 24.5 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 3.5 kB, which is 12% 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 20.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 327.9 kB

  • Original 647.1 kB
  • After minification 319.2 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, Aurora Watch needs image optimization as it can save up to 327.9 kB or 51% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 807 B

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 235 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Aurorawatch.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (40%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aurora Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

aurorawatch.ca accessibility score

53

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aurorawatch.ca best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

aurorawatch.ca SEO score

54

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Aurorawatch.ca 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 Aurorawatch.ca 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Aurora Watch. 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: