Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

bestiary.ca

Medieval Bestiary : Animals in the Middle Ages

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

401 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

Visit bestiary.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bestiary content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bestiary.ca

An online repository of information on the Medieval Book of Beasts - the Bestiary - its history, meaning and sources; and on animals in the Middle Ages in general.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestiary.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 401 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bestiary.ca performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestiary.ca

401 ms

lastupdated.js

184 ms

title.css

186 ms

strip2.jpg

184 ms

bg2.gif

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Bestiary.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (461 ms) belongs to the original domain Bestiary.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.4 kB (1%)

Content Size

355.6 kB

After Optimization

352.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Bestiary.ca main page is 355.6 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 350.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 963 B

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 666 B, which is 21% 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 2.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 186 B

  • Original 350.8 kB
  • After minification 350.6 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. Bestiary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 463 B

  • Original 784 B
  • After minification 731 B
  • After compression 321 B

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 463 B or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 544 B

  • Original 820 B
  • After minification 639 B
  • After compression 276 B

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. Bestiary.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 544 B or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bestiary. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

bestiary.ca accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bestiary.ca 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bestiary.ca 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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bestiary.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 Bestiary.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Bestiary. 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: