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lights.ca

Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. - Consulting, Usability Testing, and Technology Training

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

931 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lights.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 931 ms and then it took 1.4 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

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Network Requests Diagram

lights.ca

931 ms

styles.css

53 ms

badge150_25.gif

335 ms

nlis.gif

55 ms

menu_fade.jpg

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Lights.ca, 5% (1 request) were made to Public.slideshare.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) belongs to the original domain Lights.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.2 kB (73%)

Content Size

15.3 kB

After Optimization

4.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Lights.ca main page is 15.3 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. HTML takes 10.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 4.7 kB, which is 46% 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 8.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.9 kB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Lights images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.3 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 607 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. Lights.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lights. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

lights.ca SEO score

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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 Lights.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 Lights.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 Lights. 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: