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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

novatours.ca

Worry free world vacations since 1968 - Atlantic Tours & Travel

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

Visit novatours.ca now to see the best up-to-date Nova Tours content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about novatours.ca

Atlantic Tours & Travel. Travel specials and great vacation deals for locations around the globe. Proudly showcasing Atlantic Canada and the world since 1968.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Novatours.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

novatours.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.55

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

novatours.ca

49 ms

www.atlantictours.com

406 ms

awesomplete.css

22 ms

content.min.css

39 ms

maximenuck.php

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Novatours.ca, 83% (91 requests) were made to Atlantictours.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) relates to the external source Atlantictours.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Novatours.ca main page is 4.8 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. 75% 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 106.4 kB

  • Original 123.8 kB
  • After minification 116.9 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 106.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 346.2 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Nova Tours images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 413.4 kB
  • After minification 413.4 kB
  • After compression 407.7 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 83.0 kB
  • After compression 80.5 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. Novatours.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (60%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nova Tours. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

novatours.ca

novatours.ca

49 ms

www.atlantictours.com

www.atlantictours.com

406 ms

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awesomplete.css

22 ms

content.min.css

content.min.css

39 ms

maximenuck.php

maximenuck.php

55 ms

djimageslider.css

djimageslider.css

52 ms

nucleus.css

nucleus.css

53 ms

atlantictours_12.css

atlantictours_12.css

55 ms

bootstrap5.css

bootstrap5.css

73 ms

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57 ms

debug.css

debug.css

67 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

70 ms

atlantictours-joomla_12.css

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68 ms

custom_12.css

custom_12.css

85 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

78 ms

chosen.css

chosen.css

90 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

95 ms

finder-es5.min.js

finder-es5.min.js

95 ms

bootstrap-es5.min.js

bootstrap-es5.min.js

102 ms

awesomplete.min.js

awesomplete.min.js

96 ms

finder.min.js

finder.min.js

98 ms

jquery.min.js

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116 ms

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103 ms

popover.min.js

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98 ms

alert.min.js

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103 ms

button.min.js

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114 ms

carousel.min.js

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113 ms

collapse.min.js

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125 ms

dropdown.min.js

dropdown.min.js

125 ms

modal.min.js

modal.min.js

125 ms

offcanvas.min.js

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130 ms

scrollspy.min.js

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130 ms

tab.min.js

tab.min.js

131 ms

toast.min.js

toast.min.js

132 ms

maximenuck.min.js

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133 ms

accordeonmenuck.js

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134 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

147 ms

api.js

api.js

37 ms

js

js

54 ms

js

js

123 ms

css

css

37 ms

system.css

system.css

146 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

549 ms

slider.js

slider.js

118 ms

jq.min.js

jq.min.js

120 ms

breeze-pixel.js

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106 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

118 ms

facileforms.js

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117 ms

main.js

main.js

115 ms

favourites.2.0.js

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108 ms

atlantictours-animations.js

atlantictours-animations.js

118 ms

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142 ms

pixel.js

pixel.js

290 ms

Logo.jpg

Logo.jpg

269 ms

search-icon.jpg

search-icon.jpg

116 ms

manulife-travel-insurance-free-quote.png

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116 ms

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115 ms

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452 ms

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271 ms

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296 ms

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341 ms

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316 ms

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310 ms

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294 ms

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307 ms

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317 ms

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321 ms

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327 ms

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339 ms

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350 ms

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344 ms

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344 ms

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350 ms

ask_agent_phone_icon.png

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352 ms

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357 ms

manulife_logo.png

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358 ms

members-omca.png

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361 ms

members-tap.jpg

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365 ms

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366 ms

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373 ms

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375 ms

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376 ms

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loader.gif

319 ms

swoosh-main.svg

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320 ms

homepage-swoosh.png

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326 ms

ask-an-agent.jpg

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327 ms

travel-insurance-module.jpg

travel-insurance-module.jpg

328 ms

footer_background_image.jpg

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336 ms

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51 ms

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287 ms

Roboto-Medium-webfont.woff

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295 ms

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294 ms

fallback

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29 ms

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142 ms

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141 ms

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11 ms

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131 ms

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122 ms

css

css

21 ms

shadow_bar.png

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121 ms

logo_icon.png

logo_icon.png

119 ms

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13 ms

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Accessibility Review

novatours.ca accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

novatours.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

novatours.ca SEO score

80

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Novatours.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 Novatours.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

novatours.ca

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