Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

yourwebdepartment.com

Your Web Department | The Toronto Website Firm since 2006

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yourwebdepartment.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yourwebdepartment.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yourwebdepartment.com

54 ms

yourwebdepartment.com

99 ms

www.yourwebdepartment.com

1844 ms

icons.min.css

29 ms

agsdi-icons.min.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Yourwebdepartment.com, 19% (22 requests) were made to B1327559.smushcdn.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Yourwebdepartment.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Yourwebdepartment.com main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 823.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 247.6 kB

  • Original 284.1 kB
  • After minification 247.7 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 36.4 kB, which is 13% 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 247.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 354.9 kB
  • After minification 354.9 kB

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. Your Web Department images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 823.7 kB
  • After minification 823.7 kB
  • After compression 763.8 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 99.7 kB
  • After minification 98.2 kB
  • After compression 89.5 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. Yourwebdepartment.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (77%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Your Web Department. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yourwebdepartment.com accessibility score

87

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

yourwebdepartment.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

yourwebdepartment.com SEO score

92

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

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 Yourwebdepartment.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 Yourwebdepartment.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Your Web Department. 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: