Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

forthjunction.com

The Forth Junction Heritage Society and the visionary Forth Junction Project

Page Load Speed

596 ms in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

371 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

forthjunction.com screenshot

About Website

Visit forthjunction.com now to see the best up-to-date Forth Junction content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about forthjunction.com

Celebrating the role of trails, railways and transit in the development of Red Deer and Central Alberta

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forthjunction.com page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 503 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forthjunction.com performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forthjunction.com

93 ms

www.forthjunction.ca

84 ms

Forth_Junction_Park_Concept390.gif

41 ms

chinooktitle390.jpg

48 ms

forthjunctionproject8purpose390.gif

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Forthjunction.com, 76% (16 requests) were made to Forthjunction.ca and 10% (2 requests) were made to Paypalobjects.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (176 ms) relates to the external source Forthjunction.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.0 kB (19%)

Content Size

724.6 kB

After Optimization

589.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Forthjunction.com main page is 724.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 701.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 21.5 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 18.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 117.0 kB

  • Original 701.6 kB
  • After minification 584.6 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. Obviously, Forth Junction needs image optimization as it can save up to 117.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forth Junction. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

forthjunction.com accessibility score

60

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forthjunction.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

forthjunction.com SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Forthjunction.com 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 Forthjunction.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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