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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

skiwest.ca

Ski West | Western Canada's Best Ski & Snowboard Shop - Ski West

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

464 ms

skiwest.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ski West content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about skiwest.ca

Ski West & Mountain Division are Calgary's largest retailer specializing in premium ski & snowboard equipment for all levels since 1974. Online nation-wide & In

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skiwest.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skiwest.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skiwest.ca

32 ms

www.skiwest.ca

162 ms

cookielaw.css

113 ms

powr.js

121 ms

jquery.min.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Skiwest.ca, 75% (38 requests) were made to Cdn.shoplightspeed.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (311 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shoplightspeed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

521.8 kB

After Optimization

425.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skiwest.ca main page is 521.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 281.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 106.3 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 91.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 281.7 kB
  • After minification 281.7 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. Ski West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 131.5 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 126.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 49 B

  • Original 571 B
  • After minification 571 B
  • After compression 522 B

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. Skiwest.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (49%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ski West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

skiwest.ca

skiwest.ca

32 ms

www.skiwest.ca

www.skiwest.ca

162 ms

cookielaw.css

cookielaw.css

113 ms

powr.js

powr.js

121 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

100 ms

css

css

144 ms

fontawesome-5-min.css

fontawesome-5-min.css

139 ms

bootstrap-min.css

bootstrap-min.css

141 ms

gui.js

gui.js

112 ms

gui-responsive-2-0.js

gui-responsive-2-0.js

139 ms

style.css

style.css

142 ms

settings.css

settings.css

146 ms

custom.css

custom.css

144 ms

js

js

146 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

59 ms

jquery-zoom-min.js

jquery-zoom-min.js

143 ms

bootstrap-3-3-7-min.js

bootstrap-3-3-7-min.js

144 ms

countdown-min.js

countdown-min.js

147 ms

swiper-4-min.js

swiper-4-min.js

149 ms

global.js

global.js

155 ms

quch.js

quch.js

59 ms

intersection-observer-polyfill.js

intersection-observer-polyfill.js

158 ms

logo.png

logo.png

186 ms

logo-mobile.png

logo-mobile.png

189 ms

hallmark.png

hallmark.png

203 ms

highlight-1-image.jpg

highlight-1-image.jpg

187 ms

highlight-2-image.jpg

highlight-2-image.jpg

184 ms

highlight-3-image.jpg

highlight-3-image.jpg

186 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

189 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

189 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

190 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

199 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

191 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

193 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

195 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

196 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

193 ms

image.jpg

image.jpg

194 ms

footer-mountains.png

footer-mountains.png

200 ms

logo-footer.png

logo-footer.png

196 ms

logo-footer2.png

logo-footer2.png

198 ms

font

font

126 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

126 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

124 ms

font

font

147 ms

nova-icons.woff

nova-icons.woff

124 ms

pageview.js

pageview.js

116 ms

l.js

l.js

249 ms

payment-icons.png

payment-icons.png

132 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

311 ms

main.js

main.js

10 ms

Accessibility Review

skiwest.ca accessibility score

74

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

skiwest.ca best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skiwest.ca SEO score

84

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

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 Skiwest.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 Skiwest.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

skiwest.ca

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