Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

98 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maps.scotiabank.com page load time and found that the first response time was 512 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maps.scotiabank.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,780 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locator.scotiabank.com

512 ms

launch-e8eb4aa8f29f.min.js

26 ms

bns.vendor.min.ff763d7104932a25a24058c2bc22f14d.css

196 ms

bns.bundle.min.847af68276202d55275132d5978d3bdb.css

210 ms

bns.back-to-top-btn.min.3c708163b906bfc207dce804e160d9d8.css

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Maps.scotiabank.com, 38% (20 requests) were made to Locator.scotiabank.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) relates to the external source Locator.scotiabank.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 434.6 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Maps.scotiabank.com main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 964.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 156.8 kB

  • Original 175.5 kB
  • After minification 138.4 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 37.1 kB, which is 21% 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 156.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 102.4 kB

  • Original 964.8 kB
  • After minification 964.8 kB
  • After compression 862.4 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 102.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 175.3 kB

  • Original 294.6 kB
  • After minification 291.7 kB
  • After compression 119.3 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. Maps.scotiabank.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 175.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (79%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maps Scotiabank. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

maps.scotiabank.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

maps.scotiabank.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

maps.scotiabank.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Maps.scotiabank.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 Maps.scotiabank.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 description is not detected on the main page of Maps Scotiabank. 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: