Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

platinum.ca

High-Speed Internet Provider in Rural Canada | Xplornet

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

308 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Platinum.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 308 ms and then it took 1.9 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

platinum.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

platinum.ca

308 ms

css

50 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

193 ms

jquery.browser.min.js

181 ms

bootstrap.min.css

273 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Platinum.ca, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Platinum.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 672.5 kB (45%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

831.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Platinum.ca main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 668.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 39.8 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 4.5 kB, which is 11% 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 34.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 668.1 kB
  • After minification 615.3 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. Platinum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 439.5 kB

  • Original 618.3 kB
  • After minification 586.3 kB
  • After compression 178.8 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 439.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 168.0 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. Platinum.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 146.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (62%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Platinum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

platinum.ca accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

platinum.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

platinum.ca SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Platinum.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 Platinum.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 Platinum. 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: