Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

groupon.ca

Groupon® Official Site | Online Shopping Deals and Coupons | Save Up to 70% off

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groupon.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groupon.ca performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.groupon.ca

2142 ms

gig-v5.3.0-a75eff51a4.css

9 ms

gig-fonts-latin-v3.0.6-bdde17c8c4.css

16 ms

sls-v5.1.53-64755ecd50.css

19 ms

styles-d265d2b14b.css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Groupon.ca, 25% (8 requests) were made to Img.grouponcdn.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Groupon.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 548.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

923.8 kB

After Optimization

375.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Groupon.ca main page is 923.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 679.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 91.2 kB

  • Original 111.3 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 15.4 kB, which is 14% 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 91.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 132.7 kB
  • After minification 132.7 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. Groupon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 457.0 kB

  • Original 679.8 kB
  • After minification 678.8 kB
  • After compression 222.8 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 457.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Groupon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

groupon.ca accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

groupon.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

groupon.ca SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Groupon.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 Groupon.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 Groupon. 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: