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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

newcastlehistorical.ca

Newcastle Village and District Historical Society – 20 King Avenue West • Newcastle • Ontario • L1B 1H7

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

787 ms

Page Rendered

558 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newcastlehistorical.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1.3 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

newcastlehistorical.ca performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newcastlehistorical.ca

81 ms

newcastlehistorical.ca

107 ms

webfontloader.min.js

21 ms

select2.min.css

56 ms

iconfonts.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Newcastlehistorical.ca, 13% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (277 ms) belongs to the original domain Newcastlehistorical.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newcastlehistorical.ca main page is 2.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 95.1 kB
  • After minification 94.0 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 76.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Newcastle Historical images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 260.2 kB
  • After minification 260.2 kB
  • After compression 246.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 215.3 kB
  • After minification 214.9 kB
  • After compression 212.9 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. Newcastlehistorical.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (65%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Newcastle Historical. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

newcastlehistorical.ca accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

newcastlehistorical.ca 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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

newcastlehistorical.ca SEO score

84

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Newcastlehistorical.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 Newcastlehistorical.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 description is not detected on the main page of Newcastle Historical. 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: