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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% 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

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

shopwaterloo.ca

ShopWaterloo.ca - Shop Locally in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shopwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 377 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shopwaterloo.ca performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shopwaterloo.ca

377 ms

shopwaterloo.ca

368 ms

newerstyle.css

57 ms

newpod.css

122 ms

button.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Shopwaterloo.ca, 4% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (389 ms) belongs to the original domain Shopwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.7 kB (50%)

Content Size

842.4 kB

After Optimization

424.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shopwaterloo.ca main page is 842.4 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. Javascripts take 408.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 37.5 kB

  • Original 50.6 kB
  • After minification 47.4 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 37.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 324.0 kB
  • After minification 321.2 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. Shop Waterloo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 328.8 kB

  • Original 408.3 kB
  • After minification 260.5 kB
  • After compression 79.5 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 328.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 59.5 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Shopwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (73%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shop Waterloo. 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 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

shopwaterloo.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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shopwaterloo.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

shopwaterloo.ca SEO score

92

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Shopwaterloo.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 Shopwaterloo.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 Shop Waterloo. 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: