Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

eplans.hamilton.ca

Welcome > Welcome to Planning and Economic Development Online Services

Page Load Speed

366 ms in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

243 ms

Page Rendered

55 ms

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About Website

Welcome to eplans.hamilton.ca homepage info - get ready to check Eplans Hamilton best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about eplans.hamilton.ca

Welcome to the City of Hamilton ePlans Service. This service allows you to search for previously issued permits, check the status of pending ones and pay for permits online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eplans.hamilton.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 298 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eplans.hamilton.ca performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Eplans.hamilton.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (68 ms) belongs to the original domain Eplans.hamilton.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34 B (21%)

Content Size

160 B

After Optimization

126 B

In fact, the total size of Eplans.hamilton.ca main page is 160 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 160 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 160 B
  • After minification 154 B
  • After compression 126 B

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 34 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

eplans.hamilton.ca accessibility score

86

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

eplans.hamilton.ca best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

eplans.hamilton.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eplans.hamilton.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Eplans.hamilton.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Eplans Hamilton. 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: