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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

westerncanoekayak.com

Western Canoe Kayak - Paddle Shop Since 1976 - Gear Up Today!

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

8.7 sec

westerncanoekayak.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Western Canoe Kayak content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about westerncanoekayak.com

Find the best in canoes, kayaks, SUPs, fishing gear, and apparel at our shop. Proudly serving Canada's paddlers.

Visit westerncanoekayak.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Westerncanoekayak.com page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 13.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westerncanoekayak.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,380 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westerncanoekayak.com

127 ms

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485 ms

theme-bundle.polyfills.js

866 ms

theme-bundle.head_async.js

107 ms

css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Westerncanoekayak.com, 65% (72 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 919.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

9.6 MB

After Optimization

8.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Westerncanoekayak.com main page is 9.6 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 8.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 533.6 kB

  • Original 623.8 kB
  • After minification 572.6 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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 533.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 275.0 kB

  • Original 8.6 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Western Canoe Kayak images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 111.1 kB

  • Original 383.7 kB
  • After minification 382.6 kB
  • After compression 272.6 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 111.1 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (29%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Canoe Kayak. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

westerncanoekayak.com accessibility score

91

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

westerncanoekayak.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

westerncanoekayak.com SEO score

76

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Westerncanoekayak.com 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 Westerncanoekayak.com 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

westerncanoekayak.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Western Canoe Kayak. 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: