Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

homepower.ca

Home Power - Micro Hydro and Solar Electric Systems

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

84 ms

homepower.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Home Power content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homepower.ca

Providing technical assistance, equipment and installations. Based in BC. Go green, harness energy from the sun and falling water.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homepower.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homepower.ca performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

95/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homepower.ca

267 ms

www.homepower.ca

443 ms

homepower.css

86 ms

pete_siemensR20C30.jpg

270 ms

inductionclose.jpg

318 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Homepower.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (443 ms) belongs to the original domain Homepower.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

175.6 kB

After Optimization

166.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Homepower.ca main page is 175.6 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 166.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 1.3 kB, which is 17% 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 5.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 166.1 kB
  • After minification 163.1 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. Home Power images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 525 B

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. Homepower.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Power. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

homepower.ca accessibility score

84

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

homepower.ca best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

homepower.ca SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homepower.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 Homepower.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Home Power. 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: