Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

geocoder.ca

geocoder.ca: geocoding for North America - USA and Canada

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

401 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

geocoder.ca screenshot

About Website

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Geocoder.ca - A Canadian and US location geocoder

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geocoder.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 401 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

geocoder.ca performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geocoder.ca

401 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

359 ms

bootstrap.min.js

256 ms

application.js

173 ms

bootswatch.js

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Geocoder.ca, 11% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (462 ms) belongs to the original domain Geocoder.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.0 kB (74%)

Content Size

491.5 kB

After Optimization

128.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Geocoder.ca main page is 491.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 312.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 16.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 12.8 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. Geocoder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 142.9 kB
  • After compression 59.0 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 84.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 262.0 kB

  • Original 312.6 kB
  • After minification 279.9 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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. Geocoder.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 262.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (69%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geocoder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

geocoder.ca accessibility score

78

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

geocoder.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

geocoder.ca SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Geocoder.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 Geocoder.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 Geocoder. 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: