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Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

smedco.ca

SMEDCO - Saskatchewan Métis Economic Development Corporation

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

86 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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About Website

Welcome to smedco.ca homepage info - get ready to check SMEDCO best content right away, or after learning these important things about smedco.ca

SMEDCO is a Lending Institution created to finance the start-up, acquisition and/or expansion of viable Métis controlled small businesses in Saskatchewan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smedco.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 86 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

smedco.ca performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

59/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smedco.ca

86 ms

smedco.ca

798 ms

gtm.js

176 ms

et-divi-dynamic-291-late.css

10 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Smedco.ca, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.tidio.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (798 ms) belongs to the original domain Smedco.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smedco.ca main page is 1.8 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 131.9 kB

  • Original 162.6 kB
  • After minification 160.1 kB
  • After compression 30.7 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. 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 131.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 37.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. SMEDCO images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 171.6 kB
  • After minification 171.6 kB
  • After compression 152.3 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 19.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 23.5 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. Smedco.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (46%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMEDCO. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smedco.ca

smedco.ca

86 ms

smedco.ca

smedco.ca

798 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

176 ms

et-divi-dynamic-291-late.css

et-divi-dynamic-291-late.css

10 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

9 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

17 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

17 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

17 ms

scripts.min.js

scripts.min.js

29 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

52 ms

jquery.mobile.js

jquery.mobile.js

53 ms

easypiechart.js

easypiechart.js

51 ms

common.js

common.js

51 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

52 ms

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

mediaelement-migrate.min.js

62 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.js

wp-mediaelement.min.js

61 ms

2021_SMEDCO-Logo_Full_RGB.png

2021_SMEDCO-Logo_Full_RGB.png

127 ms

2024.05.SMEDCO.WebsiteHeader.jpg

2024.05.SMEDCO.WebsiteHeader.jpg

124 ms

SMEDCO-white.png

SMEDCO-white.png

123 ms

Metis-infinity-symbol.png

Metis-infinity-symbol.png

124 ms

daniel-belhumeur-full.jpg

daniel-belhumeur-full.jpg

124 ms

preloader.gif

preloader.gif

125 ms

Kenny-Bodvarson-testimonial-thumbnail.jpg

Kenny-Bodvarson-testimonial-thumbnail.jpg

125 ms

smedco-success-stories.optimized.png

smedco-success-stories.optimized.png

157 ms

Cornerstone-Aug-25-2021-4-1.jpg

Cornerstone-Aug-25-2021-4-1.jpg

154 ms

Mvi-6046-2-3.jpg

Mvi-6046-2-3.jpg

156 ms

Deadly-Dan-Aug-6-2021-3-2.jpg

Deadly-Dan-Aug-6-2021-3-2.jpg

155 ms

community-economic-developer-of-the-year.jpg

community-economic-developer-of-the-year.jpg

157 ms

Smedco-business-loan.jpg

Smedco-business-loan.jpg

156 ms

AvenirLTStd-Book.ttf

AvenirLTStd-Book.ttf

155 ms

AvenirLTStd-Medium.ttf

AvenirLTStd-Medium.ttf

12 ms

modules.woff

modules.woff

11 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

3 ms

mqllshy7zhl2nwntx6n3gjo0cplxvkvg.js

mqllshy7zhl2nwntx6n3gjo0cplxvkvg.js

147 ms

Accessibility Review

smedco.ca accessibility score

72

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

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

smedco.ca 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

SEO Factors

smedco.ca SEO score

92

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

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 Smedco.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 Smedco.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

smedco.ca

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