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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

highway7.com

Eastern Shore Nova Scotia Highway 7 Online Magazine - Home of 100 Wild Islands - 400 Eastern Shore Islands - Blog - Tourism, Beaches, Real Estate, Tou...

Page Load Speed

569 ms in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

388 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

About Website

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Highway7 Online Magazine with news and travel information for the Eastern Shore Marine Drive on Highway 7 in Nova Scotia Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highway7.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 502 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highway7.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

highway7.com

67 ms

h7index09.css

25 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

19 ms

platform.js

38 ms

addthis_widget.php

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Highway7.com, 14% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (287 ms) belongs to the original domain Highway7.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

250.6 kB

After Optimization

228.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Highway7.com main page is 250.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 186.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 24.3 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 2.8 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 18.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 186.9 kB
  • After minification 183.5 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. Highway 7 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 120 B

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 38.3 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

-29%

Potential reduce by 294 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 1.0 kB
  • After compression 733 B

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. Highway7.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294 B or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Highway 7. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

highway7.com accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

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

highway7.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

highway7.com SEO score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    US-ASCII

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Highway7.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 Highway7.com main page’s claimed encoding is us-ascii. 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 Highway 7. 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: