Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

points-north.com

Points North | Certified Payroll & Compliance Software

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

173 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

724 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Points-north.com page load time and found that the first response time was 173 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

points-north.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.points-north.com

173 ms

main.min.css

300 ms

theme-overrides.min.css

95 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.css

68 ms

module_94297443642_homepage-banner.min.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Points-north.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to No-cache.hubspot.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) belongs to the original domain Points-north.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Points-north.com 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 70.9 kB

  • Original 84.7 kB
  • After minification 74.6 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 10.1 kB, which is 12% 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 70.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Points North images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 108.2 kB
  • After minification 108.2 kB
  • After compression 100.6 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 21.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Points-north.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (57%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Points North. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

points-north.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

points-north.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

points-north.com SEO score

86

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

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 Points-north.com 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 Points-north.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

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