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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

groundswellcommunity.ca

Groundswell School | Programs in Leadership for Social Change | Groundswell

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

118 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

620 ms

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About Website

Visit groundswellcommunity.ca now to see the best up-to-date Groundswell Community content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about groundswellcommunity.ca

Groundswell School Is An Alternative Business School Encouraging Leadership For Social Change. We Offer Social Enterprise Courses For Individuals and Firms.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groundswellcommunity.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 118 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groundswellcommunity.ca performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.142

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

groundswellcommunity.ca

118 ms

groundswellschool.com

1390 ms

js

163 ms

style.min.css

7 ms

style-index.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Groundswellcommunity.ca, 90% (18 requests) were made to Groundswellschool.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Groundswellschool.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

394.0 kB

After Optimization

258.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Groundswellcommunity.ca main page is 394.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 128.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 109.0 kB

  • Original 128.3 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 109.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 124.6 kB
  • After minification 115.8 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. Groundswell Community images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 74.3 kB
  • After compression 67.6 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 66.8 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 56.0 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. Groundswellcommunity.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (78%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Groundswell Community. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

groundswellcommunity.ca

groundswellcommunity.ca

118 ms

groundswellschool.com

groundswellschool.com

1390 ms

js

js

163 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

7 ms

style-index.css

style-index.css

14 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

47 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

19 ms

style.css

style.css

18 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

28 ms

fontawesome.min.css

fontawesome.min.css

12 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

28 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

30 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

31 ms

theme-script.min.js

theme-script.min.js

27 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

skip-link-focus-fix.min.js

29 ms

smush-lazy-load.min.js

smush-lazy-load.min.js

28 ms

searchwp-modal-form.min.js

searchwp-modal-form.min.js

31 ms

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22 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

groundswellcommunity.ca accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

groundswellcommunity.ca best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

groundswellcommunity.ca SEO score

91

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

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 Groundswellcommunity.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 Groundswellcommunity.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Groundswell Community. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: