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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

symphonynovascotia.ca

Symphony Nova Scotia | Truly Nova Scotia’s Orchestra

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

677 ms

Page Rendered

773 ms

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About Website

Welcome to symphonynovascotia.ca homepage info - get ready to check Symphony Nova Scotia best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about symphonynovascotia.ca

Symphony Nova Scotia is truly Nova Scotia's orchestra. With a home base in Halifax and performances across the province, Symphony Nova Scotia reaches more than 50,000 Nova Scotians of all ages each ye...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Symphonynovascotia.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 69 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

symphonynovascotia.ca performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

symphonynovascotia.ca

69 ms

symphonynovascotia.ca

83 ms

integrate.js

471 ms

style.min.css

31 ms

styles.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Symphonynovascotia.ca, 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Webcomponents.spektrix.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (471 ms) relates to the external source System.spektrix.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 315.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Symphonynovascotia.ca main page is 2.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 99.0 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 85.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 227.7 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Symphony Nova Scotia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 378.5 kB
  • After compression 375.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 169 B

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 51.5 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Symphonynovascotia.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (59%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Symphony Nova Scotia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

symphonynovascotia.ca

symphonynovascotia.ca

69 ms

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symphonynovascotia.ca

83 ms

integrate.js

integrate.js

471 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

31 ms

styles.css

styles.css

60 ms

main.css

main.css

43 ms

breeze-prefetch-links.min.js

breeze-prefetch-links.min.js

59 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

53 ms

js

js

130 ms

js

js

276 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

webcomponents-loader.js

161 ms

spektrix-component-loader.js

spektrix-component-loader.js

166 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

115 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

118 ms

index.js

index.js

119 ms

index.js

index.js

117 ms

masonry.pkgd.min.js

masonry.pkgd.min.js

127 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

129 ms

main.js

main.js

156 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

159 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

164 ms

api.js

api.js

163 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

167 ms

index.js

index.js

163 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

389 ms

css2

css2

170 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

196 ms

sprite.svg

sprite.svg

137 ms

symphony-nova-scotia-logo.png

symphony-nova-scotia-logo.png

55 ms

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164 ms

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slide_bg_black.png

168 ms

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1-Murdoch-Mysteries-2024-25-Concert-Slideshows-2400x1350-reduced-size.jpeg

167 ms

select-arrow.png

select-arrow.png

164 ms

19-Symphony-Soloists-Play-Mozart-2024-25-Concert-Page-Links-800x600-reduced-size.jpeg

19-Symphony-Soloists-Play-Mozart-2024-25-Concert-Page-Links-800x600-reduced-size.jpeg

282 ms

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20-Monet-X-Change-2024-25-Concert-Page-Links-800x600-reduced-size.jpeg

282 ms

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166 ms

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285 ms

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Holly-Mathieson-V2-800x600-1.jpg

282 ms

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283 ms

NSYO_About_pl.jpg

NSYO_About_pl.jpg

279 ms

2023-10-12-Get-Your-Tickets-Holly-Symphony-1116x534-1.jpg

2023-10-12-Get-Your-Tickets-Holly-Symphony-1116x534-1.jpg

289 ms

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26-Holly-and-Daniel-2024-25-Brochure-Cover-1180x540-1.jpg

288 ms

mobile-footer-logo.png

mobile-footer-logo.png

287 ms

sprite@2x.png

sprite@2x.png

286 ms

webcomponents-lite.js

webcomponents-lite.js

112 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

230 ms

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107 ms

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108 ms

108 ms

Accessibility Review

symphonynovascotia.ca accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

symphonynovascotia.ca best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

symphonynovascotia.ca SEO score

85

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

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 Symphonynovascotia.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 Symphonynovascotia.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

symphonynovascotia.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Symphony Nova Scotia. 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: