Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

shearwaterproperties.ca

Shearwater Properties | Property Management Services in Nova Scotia | Long term and furnished rentals on the South Shore of Nova Scotia

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

751 ms

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Shearwater Properties content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about shearwaterproperties.ca

Specialising in Nova Scotia Property rentals, long term and furnished, vacation rentals around the Chester, Mahone Bay and Lunenburg areas of Nova Scotia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shearwaterproperties.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 912 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

shearwaterproperties.ca performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shearwaterproperties.ca

136 ms

global.css

83 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

118 ms

jquery-1.4.4.min.js

120 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Shearwaterproperties.ca, 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (280 ms) belongs to the original domain Shearwaterproperties.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

897.7 kB

After Optimization

874.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Shearwaterproperties.ca main page is 897.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 876.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 12.2 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.8 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 9.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 876.9 kB
  • After minification 865.1 kB

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. Shearwater Properties images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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. Shearwaterproperties.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (27%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shearwater Properties. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shearwaterproperties.ca accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shearwaterproperties.ca best practices score

58

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

shearwaterproperties.ca SEO score

62

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shearwaterproperties.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 Shearwaterproperties.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 Shearwater Properties. 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: