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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

climatechange.novascotia.ca

Climate Change in Nova Scotia | Climate Change Nova Scotia

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

299 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Climatechange.novascotia.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

climatechange.novascotia.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,800 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

climatechange.novascotia.ca

198 ms

system.base.css

34 ms

field.css

70 ms

node.css

106 ms

user.css

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Climatechange.novascotia.ca, 3% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (502 ms) belongs to the original domain Climatechange.novascotia.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 852.9 kB (72%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

335.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Climatechange.novascotia.ca main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 748.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 11.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 142.1 kB
  • After minification 142.1 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. Climate Change Nova Scotia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 599.4 kB

  • Original 748.6 kB
  • After minification 450.6 kB
  • After compression 149.2 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 599.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 242.1 kB

  • Original 281.7 kB
  • After minification 207.0 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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. Climatechange.novascotia.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 242.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (81%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Climate Change Nova Scotia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

climatechange.novascotia.ca

climatechange.novascotia.ca

198 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

34 ms

field.css

field.css

70 ms

node.css

node.css

106 ms

user.css

user.css

113 ms

views.css

views.css

106 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

111 ms

style.css

style.css

141 ms

wet-boew.css

wet-boew.css

349 ms

theme.css

theme.css

220 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

134 ms

twitterfeed.css

twitterfeed.css

140 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

275 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

170 ms

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

195 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

170 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

221 ms

jquery-2.1.1.js

jquery-2.1.1.js

502 ms

wet-boew.js

wet-boew.js

502 ms

theme.js

theme.js

247 ms

twitterfeed.js

twitterfeed.js

254 ms

nsvip-en.svg

nsvip-en.svg

267 ms

clothesline-crop1.jpg

clothesline-crop1.jpg

485 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

176 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

183 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

206 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

242 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

244 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

244 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

249 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

269 ms

bg-hdr.svg

bg-hdr.svg

232 ms

icon-search.svg

icon-search.svg

63 ms

bg-footer.svg

bg-footer.svg

345 ms

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

Roboto-Regular-webfont.woff

158 ms

Roboto-Light-webfont.woff

Roboto-Light-webfont.woff

165 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

229 ms

datepicker.js

datepicker.js

128 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

123 ms

en.js

en.js

125 ms

Accessibility Review

climatechange.novascotia.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

climatechange.novascotia.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

climatechange.novascotia.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Climatechange.novascotia.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 Climatechange.novascotia.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

climatechange.novascotia.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Climate Change Nova Scotia. 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: