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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 44

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

homestaycalgary.com

Homestay Calgary | Home for International Students, Workers and Temporary Visitors in Calgary

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

107 ms

Resources Loaded

781 ms

Page Rendered

285 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homestaycalgary.com page load time and found that the first response time was 107 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homestaycalgary.com performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homestaycalgary.com

107 ms

reset.css

32 ms

pure.css

68 ms

grids-responsive-min.css

70 ms

font-awesome.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Homestaycalgary.com, 12% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Count.carrierzone.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (592 ms) belongs to the original domain Homestaycalgary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.5 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homestaycalgary.com main page is 2.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 703 B, which is 11% 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 4.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 590 B

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Homestay Calgary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 66.4 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 30.7 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Homestaycalgary.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homestay Calgary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homestaycalgary.com

homestaycalgary.com

107 ms

reset.css

reset.css

32 ms

pure.css

pure.css

68 ms

grids-responsive-min.css

grids-responsive-min.css

70 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

17 ms

styles.css

styles.css

68 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

main.js

main.js

67 ms

count.js

count.js

212 ms

logo-icon.png

logo-icon.png

31 ms

background.png

background.png

548 ms

logo.png

logo.png

34 ms

wood.png

wood.png

592 ms

pictureframes.png

pictureframes.png

210 ms

counter.php

counter.php

117 ms

ctin.php

ctin.php

85 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

12 ms

Accessibility Review

homestaycalgary.com accessibility score

44

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

homestaycalgary.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homestaycalgary.com SEO score

75

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Homestaycalgary.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 Homestaycalgary.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

homestaycalgary.com

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