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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

simcoe.com

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Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

782 ms

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About Website

Visit simcoe.com now to see the best up-to-date Simcoe content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about simcoe.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simcoe.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 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

simcoe.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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89 ms

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209 ms

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Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Simcoe.com, 37% (28 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 674.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simcoe.com main page is 4.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 430.5 kB

  • Original 483.1 kB
  • After minification 408.5 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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 74.7 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 430.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Simcoe images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 949.5 kB
  • After minification 949.3 kB
  • After compression 819.1 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 130.3 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 58.3 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Simcoe.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (67%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simcoe. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

simcoe.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

simcoe.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

simcoe.com SEO score

76

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

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

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 Simcoe.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 Simcoe.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

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