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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

dvsa.ca

Dundas Valley School of Art | Art School Serving Hamilton & Burlington

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

477 ms

About Website

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Dundas Valley School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit art school serving the Hamilton & Burlington region. DVSA offers classes in Painting, Drawing, Pottery, Sculpture, Photography, Printmakin...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dvsa.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.8 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

dvsa.ca performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.622

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dvsa.ca

31 ms

dvsa.ca

1289 ms

css

56 ms

bootstrap.min.css

99 ms

style.min.css

127 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Dvsa.ca, 3% (2 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dvsa.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dvsa.ca main page is 3.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 126.5 kB

  • Original 145.3 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 39.5 kB, which is 27% 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 126.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Dvsa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 691.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 360.7 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 691.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 571.2 kB

  • Original 685.3 kB
  • After minification 674.6 kB
  • After compression 114.0 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. Dvsa.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 571.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (65%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dvsa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dvsa.ca accessibility score

68

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

dvsa.ca best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

dvsa.ca SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Dvsa.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 Dvsa.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 data is detected on the main page of Dvsa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: