Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

ymcaywca.ca

Home Page: YMCA of the National Capital Region

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

210 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

ymcaywca.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit ymcaywca.ca now to see the best up-to-date YMCA Ywca content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ymcaywca.ca

The YMCA of the National Capital Region is at the centre of our community, helping people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities live engaging, more rewarding lives.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ymcaywca.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 210 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ymcaywca.ca performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.539

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ymcaywca.ca

210 ms

www.ymcaottawa.ca

346 ms

jquery.min.js

155 ms

scripts.js

463 ms

ade3fa12af.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ymcaywca.ca, 65% (30 requests) were made to Ymcaottawa.ca and 11% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (966 ms) relates to the external source Ymcaottawa.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.6 kB (46%)

Content Size

82.6 kB

After Optimization

45.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ymcaywca.ca main page is 82.6 kB. 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. HTML takes 46.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 46.1 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.6 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 37.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 89 B
  • After minification 68 B

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. Obviously, YMCA Ywca needs image optimization as it can save up to 21 B or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 25.3 kB
  • After minification 25.3 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Ymcaywca.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (32%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of YMCA Ywca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ymcaywca.ca accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

ymcaywca.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ymcaywca.ca SEO score

80

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

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 Ymcaywca.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 Ymcaywca.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of YMCA Ywca. 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: