Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

firststepdrivingschool.ca

First Step Driving School | Best Driving School Windsor, Ontario | Best Driving School Windsor-Essex County

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

260 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

634 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firststepdrivingschool.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 260 ms and then it took 3.3 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

firststepdrivingschool.ca performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firststepdrivingschool.ca

260 ms

firststepdrivingschool.ca

531 ms

bootstrap.css

130 ms

bootsnav.css

255 ms

animate.css

358 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Firststepdrivingschool.ca, 9% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Firststepdrivingschool.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 163.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Firststepdrivingschool.ca main page is 2.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 13.1 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 29.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. First Step Driving School images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 152.7 kB
  • After minification 152.7 kB
  • After compression 142.7 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Firststepdrivingschool.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (41%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Step Driving School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

firststepdrivingschool.ca accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

firststepdrivingschool.ca best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

firststepdrivingschool.ca SEO score

77

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

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

    ZX

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Firststepdrivingschool.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Firststepdrivingschool.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of First Step Driving School. 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: