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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

polaronsolar.com

Polaron Makes It Easy To Go Solar — Canada's #1 Home Solar Installer

Page Load Speed

12.5 sec in total

First Response

374 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

8.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to polaronsolar.com homepage info - get ready to check Polaron Solar best content right away, or after learning these important things about polaronsolar.com

#1 residential solar installer. For 10+ years, Polaron has endured as the largest solar company in Canada—with over 8,000 installs across the nation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Polaronsolar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 374 ms and then it took 12.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

polaronsolar.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

polaronsolar.com

374 ms

polaronsolar.com

686 ms

jquery-3.6.4.min.js

55 ms

bootstrap.min.js

898 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

293 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Polaronsolar.com, 12% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Polaronsolar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (23%)

Content Size

10.7 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Polaronsolar.com main page is 10.7 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. 80% 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 9.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 183.6 kB

  • Original 217.0 kB
  • After minification 184.4 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.5 kB, which is 15% 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 183.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 9.7 MB
  • After minification 7.9 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. Obviously, Polaron Solar needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 139.0 kB

  • Original 406.7 kB
  • After minification 403.9 kB
  • After compression 267.7 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 139.0 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 342.7 kB

  • Original 410.1 kB
  • After minification 286.4 kB
  • After compression 67.4 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. Polaronsolar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (47%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Polaron Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

polaronsolar.com

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374 ms

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686 ms

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55 ms

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293 ms

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Accessibility Review

polaronsolar.com accessibility score

66

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

polaronsolar.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

polaronsolar.com SEO score

82

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

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 Polaronsolar.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 Polaronsolar.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

polaronsolar.com

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