Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

golfnorth.ca

GolfNorth – Explore Your Game

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfnorth.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfnorth.ca performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,310 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.golfnorth.ca

1850 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

12 ms

style.css

25 ms

adminbar.css

13 ms

style.css

13 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Golfnorth.ca, 69% (93 requests) were made to D2tbfnbweol72x.cloudfront.net and 13% (18 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Golfnorth.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 857.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

7.5 MB

After Optimization

6.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Golfnorth.ca main page is 7.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 70.7 kB

  • Original 84.3 kB
  • After minification 83.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 70.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 259.0 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Golf North images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 348.3 kB

  • Original 500.1 kB
  • After minification 469.0 kB
  • After compression 151.8 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 348.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 179.5 kB

  • Original 234.9 kB
  • After minification 197.4 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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. Golfnorth.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 179.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (30%)

Requests Now

134

After Optimization

94

The browser has sent 134 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

golfnorth.ca accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

golfnorth.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

golfnorth.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Golfnorth.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 Golfnorth.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 data is detected on the main page of Golf North. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: