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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kawarthanow.com

kawarthaNOW | News, events, and community information for residents, visitors, and cottagers in Peterborough and The Kawarthas

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing KawarthaNOW content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kawarthanow.com

Providing news, events, and community information to residents, visitors and cottagers in Peterborough and The Kawarthas, Lindsay and City of Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, Port Hope and Cobourg, and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kawarthanow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kawarthanow.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,080 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kawarthanow.com

94 ms

awesome-weather.css

44 ms

style.css

61 ms

icon

47 ms

css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Kawarthanow.com, 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (580 ms) relates to the external source Tpc.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (64%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kawarthanow.com main page is 4.0 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. 80% 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. CSS take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 244.2 kB
  • After minification 230.2 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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 197.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 863.3 kB
  • After minification 836.7 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. KawarthaNOW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 619.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 731.2 kB
  • After compression 386.1 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 619.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 200.6 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. Kawarthanow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 MB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (36%)

Requests Now

116

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 116 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KawarthaNOW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

kawarthanow.com accessibility score

81

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kawarthanow.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kawarthanow.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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Kawarthanow.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 Kawarthanow.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

kawarthanow.com

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