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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

basementspecialist.ca

Basement Specialist - Hamilton Area Waterproofing Since 1985

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

521 ms

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About Website

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Basement Specialist provides expert basement waterproofing solutions and foundation repair serving Hamilton, Ontario, and surrounding areas since 1985 with our dedicated specialists. From leak repairs...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Basementspecialist.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

basementspecialist.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.368

29/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

basementspecialist.ca

1107 ms

wpsol_61ae97f8007dd89973f70b8d44c2e5f2.css

148 ms

sharethis.js

26 ms

js

73 ms

wpsol_68897b5a4381696cd4d506b6deda8403.js

329 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Basementspecialist.ca, 36% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Basementspecialist.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Basementspecialist.ca main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 647.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 52.9 kB

  • Original 62.4 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 52.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 158 B

  • Original 647.1 kB
  • After minification 646.9 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. Basement Specialist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 414.2 kB
  • After minification 414.2 kB
  • After compression 347.6 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 66.6 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 130.2 kB
  • After minification 130.2 kB
  • After compression 97.6 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. Basementspecialist.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Basement Specialist. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

basementspecialist.ca

basementspecialist.ca

1107 ms

wpsol_61ae97f8007dd89973f70b8d44c2e5f2.css

wpsol_61ae97f8007dd89973f70b8d44c2e5f2.css

148 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

26 ms

js

js

73 ms

wpsol_68897b5a4381696cd4d506b6deda8403.js

wpsol_68897b5a4381696cd4d506b6deda8403.js

329 ms

css

css

54 ms

css

css

70 ms

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86 ms

Basement-Pic.jpg

Basement-Pic.jpg

91 ms

LifetimeWarrantyLogo.png

LifetimeWarrantyLogo.png

181 ms

Worker.jpg

Worker.jpg

232 ms

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BasementPic2.jpg

163 ms

Tom.jpg

Tom.jpg

255 ms

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225 ms

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215 ms

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228 ms

LowerFloor.jpg

LowerFloor.jpg

224 ms

InteriorWaterproofing.jpg

InteriorWaterproofing.jpg

260 ms

ExteriorWaterproofing.jpg

ExteriorWaterproofing.jpg

273 ms

NewBasementFoundations.jpg

NewBasementFoundations.jpg

301 ms

CrackRepair.jpg

CrackRepair.jpg

269 ms

basement.jpg

basement.jpg

291 ms

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Delta-1.png

316 ms

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Blue.png

306 ms

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Aqua1.png

311 ms

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311 ms

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TBS1.jpg

305 ms

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357 ms

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389 ms

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57 ms

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108 ms

ElegantIcons.woff

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279 ms

Accessibility Review

basementspecialist.ca accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

basementspecialist.ca best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

basementspecialist.ca SEO score

86

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

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

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 Basementspecialist.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 Basementspecialist.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

basementspecialist.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Basement Specialist. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: