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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

thewaterguy.ca

The Water Guy Filter > UV Lamps, RO Membranes, Systems & Parts

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thewaterguy.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thewaterguy.ca performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thewaterguy.ca

61 ms

www.thewaterguy.ca

1050 ms

jquery.lightbox.css&v=20240628

85 ms

global.js

54 ms

js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Thewaterguy.ca, 2% (2 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thewaterguy.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 538.8 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thewaterguy.ca main page is 2.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 303.8 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 301.1 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 303.8 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 166.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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 Water Guy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 68.6 kB

  • Original 123.2 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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 68.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (13%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

110

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Water Guy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thewaterguy.ca

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61 ms

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1050 ms

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Accessibility Review

thewaterguy.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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thewaterguy.ca best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thewaterguy.ca SEO score

64

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thewaterguy.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thewaterguy.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

thewaterguy.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Water Guy. 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: