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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

guelphtoday.com

Guelph News - Guelph News

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

210 ms

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About Website

Visit guelphtoday.com now to see the best up-to-date Guelph Today content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about guelphtoday.com

Guelph news, events, information and more. Local news from local journalists, photos, event coverage, weekly flyers, entertainment -- all on GuelphToday.com.

Visit guelphtoday.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Guelphtoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guelphtoday.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guelphtoday.com

52 ms

www.guelphtoday.com

154 ms

css

75 ms

site

27 ms

js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Guelphtoday.com, 26% (19 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 12% (9 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 625.2 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

650.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Guelphtoday.com main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 732.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 133.4 kB

  • Original 174.1 kB
  • After minification 164.7 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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 133.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 368.9 kB
  • After minification 348.8 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. Guelph Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 471.6 kB

  • Original 732.1 kB
  • After minification 732.0 kB
  • After compression 260.6 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 471.6 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (48%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guelph Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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guelphtoday.com

52 ms

www.guelphtoday.com

www.guelphtoday.com

154 ms

css

css

75 ms

site

site

27 ms

js

js

70 ms

jquery

jquery

47 ms

jquery.scrolldepth.min.js

jquery.scrolldepth.min.js

312 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

145 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

104 ms

guelphtoday.svg

guelphtoday.svg

160 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

540 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

180 ms

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463 ms

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402 ms

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444 ms

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263 ms

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villagemedia.svg

90 ms

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185 ms

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262 ms

common.js

common.js

30 ms

map.js

map.js

89 ms

layers.js

layers.js

88 ms

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277 ms

StaticMapService.GetMapImage

StaticMapService.GetMapImage

256 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

249 ms

collect

collect

65 ms

collect

collect

277 ms

collect

collect

110 ms

collect

collect

300 ms

util.js

util.js

59 ms

onion.js

onion.js

59 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

169 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

107 ms

stats.js

stats.js

107 ms

controls.js

controls.js

75 ms

css

css

113 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

137 ms

marker.js

marker.js

92 ms

google4.png

google4.png

126 ms

mapcnt6.png

mapcnt6.png

163 ms

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sv5.png

126 ms

tmapctrl.png

tmapctrl.png

119 ms

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cb_scout5.png

140 ms

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tmapctrl4.png

119 ms

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imgs8.png

158 ms

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89 ms

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89 ms

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89 ms

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89 ms

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152 ms

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153 ms

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151 ms

ads

ads

342 ms

container.html

container.html

101 ms

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63 ms

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35 ms

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74 ms

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74 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

92 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

15 ms

142 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

466 ms

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24 ms

expansion_embed.js

expansion_embed.js

85 ms

osd.js

osd.js

83 ms

abg.js

abg.js

26 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

43 ms

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77 ms

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41 ms

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71 ms

redir.html

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81 ms

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39 ms

iframe.html

iframe.html

22 ms

Accessibility Review

guelphtoday.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

guelphtoday.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

guelphtoday.com SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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 Guelphtoday.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 Guelphtoday.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

guelphtoday.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Guelph Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: