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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

naturalsteps.ca

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Page Load Speed

976 ms in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

622 ms

Page Rendered

211 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Naturalsteps.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 833 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

naturalsteps.ca performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

naturalsteps.ca

143 ms

boilerplate.css

59 ms

responsiveStyles.css

73 ms

mainStyles.css

231 ms

style.css

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Naturalsteps.ca, 4% (1 request) were made to Use.edgefonts.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (333 ms) belongs to the original domain Naturalsteps.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

606.8 kB

After Optimization

440.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Naturalsteps.ca main page is 606.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 422.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 3.4 kB, which is 20% 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 13.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 422.1 kB
  • After minification 382.9 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. Natural Steps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 84.3 kB

  • Original 130.9 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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 84.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Naturalsteps.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (38%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Natural Steps. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

naturalsteps.ca

naturalsteps.ca

143 ms

boilerplate.css

boilerplate.css

59 ms

responsiveStyles.css

responsiveStyles.css

73 ms

mainStyles.css

mainStyles.css

231 ms

style.css

style.css

68 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

256 ms

backstretch.js

backstretch.js

73 ms

montserrat:n4:default;alice:n4:default.js

montserrat:n4:default;alice:n4:default.js

12 ms

style.css

style.css

258 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

333 ms

wowslider.js

wowslider.js

301 ms

script.js

script.js

273 ms

css

css

36 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

97 ms

natural-steps.png

natural-steps.png

47 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

45 ms

LinkedIn.png

LinkedIn.png

55 ms

compressionstockings.jpg

compressionstockings.jpg

112 ms

medivenstockings.jpg

medivenstockings.jpg

105 ms

compressionsocks.jpg

compressionsocks.jpg

141 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

85 ms

compression-stockings-collage.jpg

compression-stockings-collage.jpg

147 ms

compression-pantyhose-collage.jpg

compression-pantyhose-collage.jpg

118 ms

compression-socks-collage.jpg

compression-socks-collage.jpg

139 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

100 ms

pause.png

pause.png

106 ms

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26 ms

Accessibility Review

naturalsteps.ca accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

naturalsteps.ca best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

naturalsteps.ca SEO score

100

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Naturalsteps.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 Naturalsteps.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

naturalsteps.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Natural Steps. 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: