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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

thediscoverycentre.ca

Discovery Centre - Nova Scotia's Hands-On Science Centre

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

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About Website

Visit thediscoverycentre.ca now to see the best up-to-date The Discovery Centre content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thediscoverycentre.ca

Discovery Centre, Halifax, offers fun, hands-on learning experiences, including Atlantic Canada’s only Dome Theatre

Visit thediscoverycentre.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Thediscoverycentre.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 3 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

thediscoverycentre.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value44.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.357

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thediscoverycentre.ca

39 ms

thediscoverycentre.ca

1248 ms

xlo0cug.js

171 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

48 ms

flick.css

82 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Thediscoverycentre.ca, 9% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Thediscoverycentre.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (27%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thediscoverycentre.ca main page is 7.1 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. 75% 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 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 66.0 kB
  • After minification 63.0 kB
  • After compression 13.2 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 52.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 316.9 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. The Discovery Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 779.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 330.6 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 779.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 782.3 kB

  • Original 924.8 kB
  • After minification 882.2 kB
  • After compression 142.5 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. Thediscoverycentre.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 782.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (70%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Discovery Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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39 ms

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1248 ms

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171 ms

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48 ms

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82 ms

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127 ms

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18 ms

Accessibility Review

thediscoverycentre.ca accessibility score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Best Practices

thediscoverycentre.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

SEO Factors

thediscoverycentre.ca SEO score

78

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 Thediscoverycentre.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 Thediscoverycentre.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

thediscoverycentre.ca

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