Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

greatlakeseconomicforum.com

Council of the Great Lakes Region Economic Forum 2022

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

478 ms

greatlakeseconomicforum.com screenshot

About Website

Visit greatlakeseconomicforum.com now to see the best up-to-date Great Lakes Economic Forum content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about greatlakeseconomicforum.com

The Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR) is hosting the Great Lakes Economic Forum in 2018 in Montreal, Ontario. The Forum will provide an ideal venue for leaders from around the Great Lakes Regio...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatlakeseconomicforum.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatlakeseconomicforum.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greatlakeseconomicforum.com

141 ms

greatlakeseconomicforum.com

222 ms

css

34 ms

css

50 ms

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (85 requests) were addressed to the original Greatlakeseconomicforum.com, 11% (12 requests) were made to Councilgreatlakesregion.org and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (602 ms) belongs to the original domain Greatlakeseconomicforum.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 715.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

10.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Greatlakeseconomicforum.com main page is 11.2 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. 75% 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 10.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 41.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.8 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 55.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 649.7 kB

  • Original 10.9 MB
  • After minification 10.2 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. Great Lakes Economic Forum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 163.8 kB
  • After minification 163.8 kB
  • After compression 156.9 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 41.3 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Greatlakeseconomicforum.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (19%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

82

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Lakes Economic Forum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greatlakeseconomicforum.com accessibility score

53

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

greatlakeseconomicforum.com 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

greatlakeseconomicforum.com SEO score

92

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

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 Greatlakeseconomicforum.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 Greatlakeseconomicforum.com 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 Great Lakes Economic Forum. 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: