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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

tourismstcatharines.ca

Welcome to St. Catharines | Love STC - Tourism St. Catharines

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

72 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit tourismstcatharines.ca now to see the best up-to-date Tourism St Catharines content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tourismstcatharines.ca

Welcome to St. Catharines. LoveSTC is the official website for tourism information including accommodations, dining, events and more.

Visit tourismstcatharines.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Tourismstcatharines.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tourismstcatharines.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tourismstcatharines.ca

72 ms

lovestc.ca

233 ms

foundation.css

50 ms

magnific.css

71 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tourismstcatharines.ca, 85% (84 requests) were made to Lovestc.ca and 8% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Web.archive.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 354.8 kB (4%)

Content Size

8.3 MB

After Optimization

7.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tourismstcatharines.ca main page is 8.3 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 7.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.3 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 180.2 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 156.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 188.0 kB

  • Original 7.8 MB
  • After minification 7.6 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 St Catharines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 242.8 kB
  • After minification 242.8 kB
  • After compression 234.8 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 79.1 kB
  • After compression 76.7 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. Tourismstcatharines.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (40%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

54

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tourism St Catharines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tourismstcatharines.ca

tourismstcatharines.ca

72 ms

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233 ms

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50 ms

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71 ms

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96 ms

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73 ms

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43 ms

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75 ms

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74 ms

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131 ms

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347 ms

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348 ms

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348 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

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349 ms

utils.min.js

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350 ms

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350 ms

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Accessibility Review

tourismstcatharines.ca accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role] values are not valid

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

tourismstcatharines.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tourismstcatharines.ca SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Tourismstcatharines.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 Tourismstcatharines.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

tourismstcatharines.ca

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