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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

nstep.ca

NSTEP - Nutrition Students Teachers Exercising with Parents

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

211 ms

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About Website

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

NSTEP is focused on building healthy habits for children, for life! We are an education hub of scientific, evidence based knowledge that focuses on teaching healthy habits for children, for life.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nstep.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nstep.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nstep.ca

155 ms

nstep.ca

3315 ms

js

78 ms

style.min.css

36 ms

style.min.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Nstep.ca, 21% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nstep.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 221.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nstep.ca main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 741.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 120.8 kB

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 202.9 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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. 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 120.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 741.4 kB
  • After minification 712.9 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. NSTEP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 190.3 kB
  • After minification 190.1 kB
  • After compression 164.3 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 26.1 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 206.2 kB
  • After compression 160.4 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. Nstep.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (88%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NSTEP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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155 ms

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78 ms

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Accessibility Review

nstep.ca accessibility score

88

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

nstep.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nstep.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

nstep.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of NSTEP. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: