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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

lancasterniagara.ca

Lancaster Homes Inc. | New Home Builder | Niagara, Chippawa, Bowmanville, Angus, Keswick, Oshawa

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

750 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Lancaster Niagara content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lancasterniagara.ca

Lancaster Homes is an experienced builder of new home communities located outside of Toronto and the GTA. Niagara, Bowmanville, Angus, Keswick, and Oshawa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lancasterniagara.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 750 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lancasterniagara.ca performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lancasterhomes.ca

750 ms

analytics.js

48 ms

autotrack.js

60 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

91 ms

style.min.css

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Lancasterniagara.ca, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) relates to the external source Lancasterhomes.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.4 kB (6%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lancasterniagara.ca main page is 6.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 102.5 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 16.4 kB, which is 16% 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 86.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 219.3 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Lancaster Niagara images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 252.4 kB
  • After minification 250.7 kB
  • After compression 217.3 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 35.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 896 B

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Lancasterniagara.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (39%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lancaster Niagara. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.lancasterhomes.ca

www.lancasterhomes.ca

750 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

48 ms

autotrack.js

autotrack.js

60 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

91 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

147 ms

cc-mortgage-canada.css

cc-mortgage-canada.css

168 ms

gridable-style.css

gridable-style.css

167 ms

css

css

59 ms

core.min.css

core.min.css

182 ms

style.css

style.css

164 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

169 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

202 ms

gridable-scripts.js

gridable-scripts.js

220 ms

js

js

94 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

145 ms

js.cookie-2.1.3.min.js

js.cookie-2.1.3.min.js

221 ms

jquery.bind-first-0.2.3.min.js

jquery.bind-first-0.2.3.min.js

222 ms

vimeo.min.js

vimeo.min.js

223 ms

public.js

public.js

239 ms

js

js

85 ms

js

js

136 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

41 ms

cc-mortgage-canada.js

cc-mortgage-canada.js

354 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

354 ms

new-tab.min.js

new-tab.min.js

354 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

354 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

171 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

115 ms

Banner.jpg

Banner.jpg

615 ms

arrow_left.png

arrow_left.png

372 ms

logo.png

logo.png

161 ms

Website_Pieces_LORES-02.png

Website_Pieces_LORES-02.png

161 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

160 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

160 ms

Group-1.png

Group-1.png

501 ms

Popup.png

Popup.png

486 ms

close_icon.png

close_icon.png

282 ms

Angus-July-2019-022-min-2.jpg

Angus-July-2019-022-min-2.jpg

506 ms

iStock-8177043-1440x650.jpg

iStock-8177043-1440x650.jpg

350 ms

1lgo.jpg

1lgo.jpg

281 ms

Mask-Group-1-1-1367x650.jpg

Mask-Group-1-1-1367x650.jpg

448 ms

RE-Logo_Stacked.png

RE-Logo_Stacked.png

350 ms

Mask-Group-1-1366x650.jpg

Mask-Group-1-1366x650.jpg

510 ms

lyons-creek-logo-no-grapes.jpg

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461 ms

Mask-Group-12-1366x650.jpg

Mask-Group-12-1366x650.jpg

506 ms

simcoe-landing-logo.jpg

simcoe-landing-logo.jpg

515 ms

shutterstock_565656166-1440x650.jpg

shutterstock_565656166-1440x650.jpg

541 ms

Woodlands_Logo_Final-01-1.png

Woodlands_Logo_Final-01-1.png

556 ms

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562 ms

map-button.png

map-button.png

565 ms

Aerial_Spread2.jpg

Aerial_Spread2.jpg

618 ms

lancaster-home-about-narrow-585x390.jpg

lancaster-home-about-narrow-585x390.jpg

570 ms

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596 ms

Niagara-Falls-585x400.jpeg

Niagara-Falls-585x400.jpeg

610 ms

1_Family-585x400.jpg

1_Family-585x400.jpg

616 ms

1_ColourSamples-585x400.jpg

1_ColourSamples-585x400.jpg

619 ms

green_advantage_homes.jpg

green_advantage_homes.jpg

676 ms

advantages-2.png

advantages-2.png

651 ms

advantages-3.png

advantages-3.png

665 ms

PMA-Logo-Final-2016.jpg

PMA-Logo-Final-2016.jpg

672 ms

jill-leslie.jpg

jill-leslie.jpg

672 ms

arrow_right.png

arrow_right.png

372 ms

carmela_photo_V4.jpg

carmela_photo_V4.jpg

591 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

606 ms

footer-cta.jpg

footer-cta.jpg

624 ms

popupleft.jpg

popupleft.jpg

628 ms

popupright.jpg

popupright.jpg

630 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

155 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

51 ms

Accessibility Review

lancasterniagara.ca accessibility score

85

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

lancasterniagara.ca best practices score

58

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

lancasterniagara.ca SEO score

84

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

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 Lancasterniagara.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 Lancasterniagara.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

lancasterniagara.ca

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