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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% 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

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

halton.ca

Halton - Regional government for Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

64 ms

halton.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit halton.ca now to see the best up-to-date Halton content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about halton.ca

Find information on Regional programs and services for residents and businesses in Halton Region.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Halton.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

halton.ca performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.478

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

halton.ca

93 ms

www.halton.ca

514 ms

GetResource.ashx

41 ms

icon

73 ms

jquery-ui.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (128 requests) were addressed to the original Halton.ca, 3% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Halton.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 926.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Halton.ca main page is 3.7 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 271.8 kB

  • Original 323.1 kB
  • After minification 281.2 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 42.0 kB, which is 13% 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 271.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 590.6 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Obviously, Halton needs image optimization as it can save up to 590.6 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 270.9 kB
  • After minification 270.9 kB
  • After compression 210.0 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 60.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 69.7 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. Halton.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (42%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

84

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Halton. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

halton.ca

halton.ca

93 ms

www.halton.ca

www.halton.ca

514 ms

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GetResource.ashx

41 ms

icon

icon

73 ms

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jquery-ui.css

56 ms

GetResource.ashx

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64 ms

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GetResource.ashx

122 ms

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73 ms

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98 ms

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80 ms

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84 ms

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79 ms

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88 ms

jquery-ui.js

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64 ms

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163 ms

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71 ms

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94 ms

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243 ms

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242 ms

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91 ms

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219 ms

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240 ms

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240 ms

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218 ms

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219 ms

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158 ms

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bootstrap.min.js

232 ms

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233 ms

sticky.js

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265 ms

WaterMark.min.js

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322 ms

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408 ms

slick.min.js

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319 ms

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406 ms

jquery.scrollsnap.min.js

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415 ms

jquery.scrollstop.js

jquery.scrollstop.js

319 ms

Halton_min.js

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939 ms

photoswipe.umd.min.js

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74 ms

photoswipe-lightbox.umd.min.js

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67 ms

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434 ms

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412 ms

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244 ms

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98 ms

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229 ms

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464 ms

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546 ms

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582 ms

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614 ms

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609 ms

SCS-older-adults-thumbnail.aspx

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705 ms

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654 ms

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625 ms

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795 ms

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804 ms

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826 ms

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1410 ms

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839 ms

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910 ms

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916 ms

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884 ms

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76 ms

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CAO-employment-programs-and-supports-for-employers-thumbnail.aspx

843 ms

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1246 ms

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HE-information-for-physicians-thumbnail.aspx

868 ms

HE-workplace-health-thumbnail.aspx

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986 ms

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HE-halton-region-community-investment-fund-thumbnail.aspx

1502 ms

CAO-contact-us-banner_2.aspx

CAO-contact-us-banner_2.aspx

1444 ms

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991 ms

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1603 ms

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16 ms

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1216 ms

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1203 ms

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1584 ms

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1696 ms

CAO-explore-and-enjoy-halton-thumbnail.aspx

CAO-explore-and-enjoy-halton-thumbnail.aspx

1730 ms

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2293 ms

CAO-projects-and-initiatives-thumbnail.aspx

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1435 ms

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1701 ms

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2071 ms

CAO-calendar-and-events-thumbnail.aspx

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2590 ms

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1478 ms

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1416 ms

CAO-online-compliance-program-icon.aspx

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1760 ms

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2416 ms

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1772 ms

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1915 ms

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1769 ms

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1832 ms

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2080 ms

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1965 ms

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1775 ms

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1850 ms

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1869 ms

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1938 ms

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1154 ms

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1692 ms

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Accessibility Review

halton.ca accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

halton.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

halton.ca SEO score

78

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Halton.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 Halton.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

halton.ca

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