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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca

Elections Nova Scotia Information, Statistics and Resources.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

735 ms

Page Rendered

174 ms

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About Website

Visit electionsnovascotia.ns.ca now to see the best up-to-date Elections Nova Scotia content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about electionsnovascotia.ns.ca

Elections Nova Scotia is the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting provincial elections in Nova Scotia. Our website provides information and statistics to voters, candidates, wor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Electionsnovascotia.ns.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 909 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

electionsnovascotia.ca

177 ms

system.base.css

32 ms

system.menus.css

63 ms

system.messages.css

94 ms

system.theme.css

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Electionsnovascotia.ns.ca, 18% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (225 ms) relates to the external source Electionsnovascotia.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.6 kB (38%)

Content Size

600.8 kB

After Optimization

372.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Electionsnovascotia.ns.ca main page is 600.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 325.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. 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 47.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 325.1 kB
  • After minification 294.5 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. Elections Nova Scotia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 99.6 kB

  • Original 156.7 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 57.2 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 99.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. Electionsnovascotia.ns.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (64%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elections Nova Scotia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

electionsnovascotia.ca

electionsnovascotia.ca

177 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

32 ms

system.menus.css

system.menus.css

63 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

94 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

97 ms

date.css

date.css

94 ms

field.css

field.css

96 ms

node.css

node.css

95 ms

search.css

search.css

96 ms

user.css

user.css

127 ms

views.css

views.css

126 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

128 ms

video.css

video.css

124 ms

print_ui.theme.css

print_ui.theme.css

127 ms

style.css

style.css

153 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

212 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

157 ms

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

156 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

158 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

185 ms

video.js

video.js

185 ms

googleanalytics.js

googleanalytics.js

186 ms

dropdowns.js

dropdowns.js

189 ms

slider.js

slider.js

225 ms

pze6gmn.js

pze6gmn.js

71 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

223 ms

ba.js

ba.js

34 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

162 ms

all.js

all.js

152 ms

version.json

version.json

168 ms

bg.png

bg.png

91 ms

logo.png

logo.png

54 ms

RURegistered.jpg

RURegistered.jpg

93 ms

ns_map2.png

ns_map2.png

65 ms

yarrow.png

yarrow.png

55 ms

logo-black.png

logo-black.png

53 ms

twitter2.png

twitter2.png

68 ms

facebook2.png

facebook2.png

69 ms

youtube2.png

youtube2.png

69 ms

rss2.png

rss2.png

96 ms

lr_press_0084_web.jpg

lr_press_0084_web.jpg

130 ms

Lato-Regular-webfont.woff

Lato-Regular-webfont.woff

100 ms

Lato-Light-webfont.woff

Lato-Light-webfont.woff

130 ms

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all.js

all.js

26 ms

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22 ms

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29 ms

100 ms

js

js

55 ms

Accessibility Review

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca accessibility score

85

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca SEO score

64

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Electionsnovascotia.ns.ca 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 Electionsnovascotia.ns.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

electionsnovascotia.ns.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Elections Nova Scotia. 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: