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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

northerncs.com

Website Design, SEO, Graphic Design and Photography in Ontario Canada

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

792 ms

Page Rendered

394 ms

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About Website

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Northern Computer Services focuses on the application of Internet-based technologies in the business-to-business market segment. The company offers a complete range of technical services including spe...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northerncs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 1.2 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

northerncs.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northerncs.com

97 ms

northerncs.com

203 ms

css

43 ms

bootstrap.css

82 ms

font-awesome.css

123 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Northerncs.com, 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) belongs to the original domain Northerncs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.0 kB (14%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

959.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northerncs.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 830.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 11.6 kB, which is 29% 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 32.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 830.9 kB
  • After minification 783.1 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. Northerncs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 167.7 kB
  • After minification 167.5 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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 45.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Northerncs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.8 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (55%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northerncs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northerncs.com

northerncs.com

97 ms

northerncs.com

northerncs.com

203 ms

css

css

43 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

82 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

123 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

135 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

135 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

139 ms

theme.css

theme.css

145 ms

theme-elements.css

theme-elements.css

149 ms

theme-animate.css

theme-animate.css

148 ms

settings.css

settings.css

161 ms

component.css

component.css

158 ms

blue.css

blue.css

163 ms

custom.css

custom.css

166 ms

theme-responsive.css

theme-responsive.css

171 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

182 ms

logo_ncs_text_sm.png

logo_ncs_text_sm.png

294 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

293 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

288 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

288 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

289 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

290 ms

twitter.js

twitter.js

291 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

306 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

307 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

308 ms

jquery.flipshow.js

jquery.flipshow.js

308 ms

magnific-popup.js

magnific-popup.js

309 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

309 ms

view.home.js

view.home.js

309 ms

theme.js

theme.js

309 ms

custom.js

custom.js

310 ms

js

js

134 ms

beacon.min.js

beacon.min.js

79 ms

cflaw.ca.jpg

cflaw.ca.jpg

370 ms

photography.jpg

photography.jpg

305 ms

graphics.png

graphics.png

306 ms

glenvale.ca.jpg

glenvale.ca.jpg

369 ms

ktportajohn.ca.jpg

ktportajohn.ca.jpg

370 ms

justjoinery.ca.jpg

justjoinery.ca.jpg

367 ms

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304 ms

lapoissonnerie.net.jpg

lapoissonnerie.net.jpg

266 ms

northbayoutfitters.com.jpg

northbayoutfitters.com.jpg

259 ms

promo.jpg

promo.jpg

259 ms

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cflaw_ca.jpg

254 ms

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246 ms

schauenburg_ca.jpg

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244 ms

cthacker_org.jpg

cthacker_org.jpg

240 ms

social-sprites.png

social-sprites.png

207 ms

home-concept.png

home-concept.png

261 ms

home-concept-icons.png

home-concept-icons.png

262 ms

home-concept-item.png

home-concept-item.png

262 ms

icon-user-48.png

icon-user-48.png

263 ms

map-top.png

map-top.png

209 ms

map-bottom.png

map-bottom.png

152 ms

font

font

86 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

86 ms

font

font

86 ms

Accessibility Review

northerncs.com accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

Best Practices

northerncs.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

northerncs.com SEO score

69

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Northerncs.com 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 Northerncs.com 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

northerncs.com

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