Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

castanet.net

Castanet.net - Kelowna's Homepage

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

600 ms

castanet.net screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Castanet.net page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

castanet.net performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,930 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

castanet.net

45 ms

www.castanet.net

335 ms

css

44 ms

new93.css

33 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 205 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Castanet.net, 6% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (8 requests) were made to X.castanet.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Castanet.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Castanet.net main page is 3.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 109.8 kB
  • After minification 109.2 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 82.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Castanet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 937.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 59.2 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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. Castanet.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (31%)

Requests Now

189

After Optimization

131

The browser has sent 189 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Castanet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

castanet.net accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

castanet.net best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

castanet.net SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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