Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

marineanimals.ca

Marine Animal Response Society - Home - Marine Animal Response Society (MARS)

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

4.1 sec

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About Website

Welcome to marineanimals.ca homepage info - get ready to check Marine Animal S best content right away, or after learning these important things about marineanimals.ca

MARS is a Nova Scotia-based charitable organization dedicated to marine animal conservation through response, research and engagement.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Marineanimals.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

marineanimals.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.8 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

marineanimals.ca

2815 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

76 ms

style.min.css

103 ms

classic-themes.min.css

53 ms

settings.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Marineanimals.ca, 13% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Marineanimals.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (14%)

Content Size

13.1 MB

After Optimization

11.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Marineanimals.ca main page is 13.1 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. 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. Images take 11.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 83.0 kB

  • Original 99.2 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 83.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 353.9 kB

  • Original 11.3 MB
  • After minification 11.0 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. Marine Animal S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 508.3 kB

  • Original 696.5 kB
  • After minification 614.2 kB
  • After compression 188.2 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 508.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 846.1 kB

  • Original 966.1 kB
  • After minification 911.0 kB
  • After compression 120.0 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. Marineanimals.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 846.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (61%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Marine Animal S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

marineanimals.ca accessibility score

74

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

marineanimals.ca best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

marineanimals.ca SEO score

86

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

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 Marineanimals.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 Marineanimals.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

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