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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

gulfislandsdriftwood.com

Gulf Islands Driftwood | Newspaper serving the Gulf Islands since 1960

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gulfislandsdriftwood.com homepage info - get ready to check Gulf Islands Driftwood best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about gulfislandsdriftwood.com

Gulf Islands Driftwood is the community newspaper of Salt Spring and the Gulf Islands, both online and in print, and has been the newspaper of record since 1960.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gulfislandsdriftwood.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gulfislandsdriftwood.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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85 ms

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28 ms

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51 ms

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54 ms

photoswipe.min.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Gulfislandsdriftwood.com, 13% (17 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 11% (14 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Btn.weather.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 435.8 kB (47%)

Content Size

934.8 kB

After Optimization

499.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gulfislandsdriftwood.com main page is 934.8 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. 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. Javascripts take 452.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 85.4 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 71.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 9.6 kB

  • Original 257.4 kB
  • After minification 247.8 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. Gulf Islands Driftwood images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 265.9 kB

  • Original 452.4 kB
  • After minification 435.3 kB
  • After compression 186.5 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 265.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 88.4 kB

  • Original 134.2 kB
  • After minification 111.8 kB
  • After compression 45.8 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. Gulfislandsdriftwood.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 88.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (56%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

54

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gulf Islands Driftwood. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

gulfislandsdriftwood.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

gulfislandsdriftwood.com 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

SEO Factors

gulfislandsdriftwood.com SEO score

83

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 Gulfislandsdriftwood.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 Gulfislandsdriftwood.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

gulfislandsdriftwood.com

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