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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

boralex.com

Boralex - Beyond Renewable Energy

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

676 ms

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About Website

Welcome to boralex.com homepage info - get ready to check Boralex best content for Germany right away, or after learning these important things about boralex.com

Boralex is a Quebec-based company that produces renewable wind, solar, hydroelectric and thermal energy in Canada, France and the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Boralex.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 2 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

boralex.com performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

boralex.com

90 ms

www.boralex.com

475 ms

analytics.js

35 ms

bootstrap.min.css

159 ms

font-awesome.min.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Boralex.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) belongs to the original domain Boralex.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 695.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Boralex.com main page is 4.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 42.3 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 15.7 kB, which is 37% 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 36.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Boralex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 329.0 kB

  • Original 413.1 kB
  • After minification 271.2 kB
  • After compression 84.1 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 329.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 284.2 kB

  • Original 330.8 kB
  • After minification 286.9 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Boralex.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 284.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (42%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boralex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

boralex.com

boralex.com

90 ms

www.boralex.com

www.boralex.com

475 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

159 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

82 ms

slick.css

slick.css

71 ms

styles.css

styles.css

122 ms

offcanvas.css

offcanvas.css

69 ms

app.css

app.css

98 ms

modernizr.min.js

modernizr.min.js

78 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

68 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

71 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

47 ms

offcanvas.js

offcanvas.js

71 ms

accordion.js

accordion.js

79 ms

classie.js

classie.js

82 ms

preload.js

preload.js

104 ms

sidebarEffects.js

sidebarEffects.js

104 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

297 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

boralex.svg

boralex.svg

74 ms

header_bg_accueil.jpg

header_bg_accueil.jpg

309 ms

facebook-white.png

facebook-white.png

77 ms

twitter-white.png

twitter-white.png

77 ms

linkedin-white.png

linkedin-white.png

77 ms

bg-gris-canada.jpg

bg-gris-canada.jpg

94 ms

bg-gris-france.jpg

bg-gris-france.jpg

100 ms

bg-gris-us.jpg

bg-gris-us.jpg

100 ms

hydro_hover.jpg

hydro_hover.jpg

261 ms

thermique_hover.jpg

thermique_hover.jpg

261 ms

eolien_hover.jpg

eolien_hover.jpg

261 ms

solaire_hover.jpg

solaire_hover.jpg

262 ms

m-logo-tweet.png

m-logo-tweet.png

259 ms

boralex-bw.png

boralex-bw.png

263 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

152 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

170 ms

bg-eolienne.jpg

bg-eolienne.jpg

140 ms

bg-hydro.jpg

bg-hydro.jpg

152 ms

bg-thermo.jpg

bg-thermo.jpg

235 ms

bg-solaire.jpg

bg-solaire.jpg

199 ms

Accessibility Review

boralex.com 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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

boralex.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

SEO Factors

boralex.com 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

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

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 Boralex.com 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 Boralex.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Boralex. 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: