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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

stepwest.com

Working Holidays & Internships in Canada | Stepwest

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

218 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

About Website

Welcome to stepwest.com homepage info - get ready to check Stepwest best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about stepwest.com

Stepwest provides working holiday and internship experiences in Canada as a Recognized Organization of the Government of Canada (IEC).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stepwest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 218 ms and then it took 1.7 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

stepwest.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stepwest.com

218 ms

www.stepwest.com

565 ms

sw-logo.svg

79 ms

arrow-down-black.svg

221 ms

sw-icon.svg

222 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stepwest.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (565 ms) belongs to the original domain Stepwest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 834.1 kB (59%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

573.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stepwest.com main page is 1.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 354.0 kB

  • Original 418.7 kB
  • After minification 373.9 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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 44.8 kB, which is 11% 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 354.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 365.1 kB
  • After minification 348.4 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. Stepwest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 372.8 kB

  • Original 515.8 kB
  • After minification 503.8 kB
  • After compression 142.9 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 372.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 90.6 kB

  • Original 107.6 kB
  • After minification 107.0 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Stepwest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 90.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stepwest. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

stepwest.com accessibility score

81

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

stepwest.com 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

stepwest.com SEO score

89

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

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 Stepwest.com 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 Stepwest.com 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 Stepwest. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: