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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

pdbns.ca

Welcome | Provincial Dental Board of Nova Scotia

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

316 ms

Resources Loaded

655 ms

Page Rendered

188 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pdbns.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 316 ms and then it took 843 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

pdbns.ca performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pdbns.ca

316 ms

b4bc06e5c431f79cf560445a6e9f792d30260a56.1603384302.css

110 ms

custom.modernizr.js

52 ms

7bd949c05eff8c4b84d7401450d6cf23a45935a2.1394802136.js

151 ms

zepto.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Pdbns.ca, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (316 ms) belongs to the original domain Pdbns.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pdbns.ca main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 3.8 kB, which is 11% 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 27.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Pdbns images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 228.5 kB

  • Original 343.2 kB
  • After minification 321.6 kB
  • After compression 114.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 228.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 166.9 kB

  • Original 190.1 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Pdbns.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (17%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pdbns. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pdbns.ca

pdbns.ca

316 ms

b4bc06e5c431f79cf560445a6e9f792d30260a56.1603384302.css

b4bc06e5c431f79cf560445a6e9f792d30260a56.1603384302.css

110 ms

custom.modernizr.js

custom.modernizr.js

52 ms

7bd949c05eff8c4b84d7401450d6cf23a45935a2.1394802136.js

7bd949c05eff8c4b84d7401450d6cf23a45935a2.1394802136.js

151 ms

zepto.js

zepto.js

26 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

89 ms

icon-phone.png

icon-phone.png

89 ms

icon-email.png

icon-email.png

90 ms

icon-print.png

icon-print.png

90 ms

hero_PeggysCove.jpg

hero_PeggysCove.jpg

151 ms

hero-xray2.jpg

hero-xray2.jpg

122 ms

hero-happy-dentist.jpg

hero-happy-dentist.jpg

125 ms

hero-in-chair.jpg

hero-in-chair.jpg

105 ms

promo_public.jpg

promo_public.jpg

116 ms

promo_licensees.jpg

promo_licensees.jpg

104 ms

promo_applicants.jpg

promo_applicants.jpg

128 ms

flag-ns.png

flag-ns.png

130 ms

map-pointer.png

map-pointer.png

139 ms

comm_points.jpg

comm_points.jpg

151 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

preloader-white.gif

preloader-white.gif

70 ms

rs-minimal-white.png

rs-minimal-white.png

68 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

js

js

62 ms

print.css

print.css

25 ms

Accessibility Review

pdbns.ca accessibility score

81

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

[role] values are not valid

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

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

pdbns.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

pdbns.ca SEO score

89

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

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 Pdbns.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 Pdbns.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

pdbns.ca

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