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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

tourismladysmith.ca

Tourism Ladysmith - Stay by the Seaside, Enjoy Fine Dining & Shopping

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

995 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

787 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tourismladysmith.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 995 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

tourismladysmith.ca performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tourismladysmith.ca

995 ms

style.min.css

48 ms

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

91 ms

grid-system.css

105 ms

style.css

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Tourismladysmith.ca, 12% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (995 ms) belongs to the original domain Tourismladysmith.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.6 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tourismladysmith.ca main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 99.2 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 86.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 92.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Tourism Ladysmith images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 204.1 kB
  • After minification 204.1 kB
  • After compression 168.9 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 35.1 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 159.1 kB
  • After minification 159.1 kB
  • After compression 123.4 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. Tourismladysmith.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.7 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (65%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tourism Ladysmith. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tourismladysmith.ca

tourismladysmith.ca

995 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

48 ms

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

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91 ms

grid-system.css

grid-system.css

105 ms

style.css

style.css

159 ms

header-layout-left.css

header-layout-left.css

129 ms

header-secondary-nav.css

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138 ms

element-fancy-box.css

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139 ms

css

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39 ms

responsive.css

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144 ms

skin-material.css

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153 ms

menu-dynamic.css

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164 ms

js_composer.min.css

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181 ms

salient-dynamic-styles.css

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213 ms

css

css

36 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

229 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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198 ms

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197 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

195 ms

core.css

core.css

269 ms

slide-out-right-hover.css

slide-out-right-hover.css

373 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

374 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

374 ms

priority.js

priority.js

375 ms

transit.min.js

transit.min.js

374 ms

waypoints.js

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374 ms

imagesLoaded.min.js

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375 ms

hoverintent.min.js

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375 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

377 ms

anime.min.js

anime.min.js

375 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

375 ms

init.js

init.js

378 ms

touchswipe.min.js

touchswipe.min.js

376 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

377 ms

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113 ms

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186 ms

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178 ms

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186 ms

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Kayak-button.jpg

252 ms

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185 ms

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252 ms

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Kayak-button-1.jpg

266 ms

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315 ms

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314 ms

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315 ms

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Accessibility Review

tourismladysmith.ca accessibility score

84

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

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

tourismladysmith.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

tourismladysmith.ca SEO score

86

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

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 Tourismladysmith.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 Tourismladysmith.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

tourismladysmith.ca

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