Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

virtualhospice.ca

Canadian Virtual Hospice

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

942 ms

Page Rendered

133 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virtualhospice.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 61 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virtualhospice.ca performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virtualhospice.ca

61 ms

virtualhospice.ca

95 ms

www.virtualhospice.ca

124 ms

Home.aspx

38 ms

Home.aspx

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Virtualhospice.ca, 1% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 1% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (229 ms) belongs to the original domain Virtualhospice.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Virtualhospice.ca main page is 2.7 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 50.5 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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 40.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 167.9 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. Virtual Hospice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 186.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 68.3 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 22.0 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. Virtualhospice.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (34%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virtual Hospice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

virtualhospice.ca accessibility score

75

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

virtualhospice.ca best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

virtualhospice.ca SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virtualhospice.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 Virtualhospice.ca main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Virtual Hospice. 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: