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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

sherkhomeservices.ca

Sherk Home Services | Heating, Cooling & Ventilation services in Ottawa

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

About Website

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Servicing Ottawa and surrounding areas since 2009. We offer residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sherkhomeservices.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 94 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

sherkhomeservices.ca performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sherkhomeservices.ca

94 ms

master_css.css

38 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

88 ms

FormValidation.js

36 ms

font_styles_ns4.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Sherkhomeservices.ca, 24% (14 requests) were made to Sitebuilder.homestead.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to T8.prnx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (407 ms) relates to the external source Web4.realtracker.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 164.3 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

933.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sherkhomeservices.ca main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 966.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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. 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 24.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 107.4 kB

  • Original 966.0 kB
  • After minification 858.6 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, Sherk Home Services needs image optimization as it can save up to 107.4 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 89.0 kB
  • After compression 62.7 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 27.2 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Sherkhomeservices.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.6 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sherk Home Services. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sherkhomeservices.ca accessibility score

46

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

sherkhomeservices.ca best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sherkhomeservices.ca SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sherkhomeservices.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 Sherkhomeservices.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 Sherk Home Services. 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: