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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

nanaimoweather.ca

School-Based Weather Station Network - Nanaimo, British Columbia

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

359 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

172 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Nanaimo Weather content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nanaimoweather.ca

Weather Station Network of Climate Modelling Group of the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nanaimoweather.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 359 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

nanaimoweather.ca performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nanaimoweather.ca

359 ms

vwsn_main.css

167 ms

urchin.js

7 ms

all.js

75 ms

baro_fs.png

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Nanaimoweather.ca, 40% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 22% (11 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (747 ms) relates to the external source Victoriaweather.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.1 kB (20%)

Content Size

150.5 kB

After Optimization

120.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nanaimoweather.ca main page is 150.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 90.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. 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 18.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 88.2 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. Nanaimo Weather images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 24.0 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Nanaimoweather.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (38%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nanaimo Weather. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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359 ms

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167 ms

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7 ms

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75 ms

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747 ms

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90 ms

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171 ms

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247 ms

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172 ms

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21 ms

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69 ms

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Accessibility Review

nanaimoweather.ca accessibility score

93

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.

Best Practices

nanaimoweather.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

SEO Factors

nanaimoweather.ca SEO score

77

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 Nanaimoweather.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 Nanaimoweather.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

nanaimoweather.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Nanaimo Weather. 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: