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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

cascadeweb.ca

Cascade Flow Control Solutions: Canada's Leading Flow Control Provider | Cascade Flow Control Solutions

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

289 ms

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About Website

Visit cascadeweb.ca now to see the best up-to-date Cascade Web content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cascadeweb.ca

Cascade Equipment Ltd. is a privately owned company who has been a leading distributor of Valves, Strainers, Heat Transfer and related products since 1983.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cascadeweb.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cascadeweb.ca performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.795

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cascadeflow.ca

1627 ms

cascadeflow.ca

316 ms

css

53 ms

font-awesome.min.css

55 ms

styles2.css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cascadeweb.ca, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Cascadeflow.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 577.7 kB (8%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cascadeweb.ca main page is 7.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 16.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 530.2 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Cascade Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 271.5 kB
  • After minification 270.7 kB
  • After compression 254.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Cascadeweb.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (11%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

65

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cascade Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cascadeflow.ca

cascadeflow.ca

1627 ms

cascadeflow.ca

cascadeflow.ca

316 ms

css

css

53 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

55 ms

styles2.css

styles2.css

26 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

42 ms

api.js

api.js

56 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

55 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

57 ms

js

js

138 ms

kickstart-grid.css

kickstart-grid.css

42 ms

logo.png

logo.png

26 ms

banner-cover.png

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26 ms

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122 ms

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120 ms

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155 ms

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89 ms

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218 ms

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232 ms

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232 ms

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240 ms

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american_flow_control_logo.png

179 ms

aquatherm_logo_rgb_gradient-green_wpa.png

aquatherm_logo_rgb_gradient-green_wpa.png

158 ms

babbitt_international_logo.png

babbitt_international_logo.png

158 ms

babbitt_steam_logo.png

babbitt_steam_logo.png

157 ms

bi-torq_logo.png

bi-torq_logo.png

156 ms

bti_logo.png

bti_logo.png

139 ms

flo-tite_logo.png

flo-tite_logo.png

144 ms

habonim_logo.png

habonim_logo.png

144 ms

homestead_logo.png

homestead_logo.png

144 ms

lectrodryer_logo.png

lectrodryer_logo.png

152 ms

mack_iron_logo.png

mack_iron_logo.png

146 ms

matco_norca_logo.png

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137 ms

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max_seal_logo.png

143 ms

nibco_logo.png

nibco_logo.png

137 ms

predator_logo.png

predator_logo.png

136 ms

powell_valves_logo.png

powell_valves_logo.png

136 ms

sharpe_valve_logo.png

sharpe_valve_logo.png

137 ms

standard_xchange_logo.png

standard_xchange_logo.png

131 ms

titan_flow_logo.png

titan_flow_logo.png

142 ms

united_brass_logo.png

united_brass_logo.png

139 ms

webstone_logo.png

webstone_logo.png

138 ms

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144 ms

Accessibility Review

cascadeweb.ca accessibility score

86

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

cascadeweb.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cascadeweb.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cascadeweb.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 Cascadeweb.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

cascadeweb.ca

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