Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

seawa.ca

Welcome to SEAWA | South East Alberta Watershed Alliance

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

501 ms

seawa.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing SEAWA content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about seawa.ca

SEAWA works in partnership with the government of Alberta to achieve the goals laid out in the Water for Life strategy: Healthy aquatic ecosystems; Reliable, quality water supplies for a sustainable e...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seawa.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 2.8 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

seawa.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seawa.ca

78 ms

seawa.ca

455 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

27 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

53 ms

default.css

303 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Seawa.ca, 15% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Seawa.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 968.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

8.9 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Seawa.ca main page is 8.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 68.8 kB

  • Original 79.2 kB
  • After minification 57.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 21.7 kB, which is 27% 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 68.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 843.1 kB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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, SEAWA needs image optimization as it can save up to 843.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 837.1 kB
  • After minification 836.9 kB
  • After compression 798.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 211.3 kB
  • After minification 211.3 kB
  • After compression 193.8 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. Seawa.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (34%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SEAWA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

seawa.ca accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

seawa.ca 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

seawa.ca SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Seawa.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 Seawa.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

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