Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

kayaksport.net

Kayak Sport Canada | Quality kayaks, canoes, SUP and accessories

Page Load Speed

475 ms in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

284 ms

Page Rendered

137 ms

kayaksport.net screenshot

About Website

Welcome to kayaksport.net homepage info - get ready to check Kayak Sport best content right away, or after learning these important things about kayaksport.net

Kayak Sport Canada supplies quality equipment for Sprint, Marathon, Surfski, Outrigger, SUP, Dragon and Expedition paddlers. Offering the very best products, expert service and advice.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kayaksport.net page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 421 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

kayaksport.net performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kayaksport.net

54 ms

kayaksport.css

48 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.css

76 ms

jquery.ui.theme.min.css

62 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Kayaksport.net, 9% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (93 ms) belongs to the original domain Kayaksport.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.6 kB (6%)

Content Size

654.4 kB

After Optimization

616.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Kayaksport.net main page is 654.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 628.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 16.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 628.8 kB
  • After minification 610.2 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. Kayak Sport images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 681 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. Kayaksport.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kayak Sport. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

kayaksport.net accessibility score

79

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kayaksport.net best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

kayaksport.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kayaksport.net 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 Kayaksport.net 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

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