Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

pricebat.ca

PriceBat.ca - Search & Compare Canada Online Store Prices Before You Buy

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

545 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

pricebat.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit pricebat.ca now to see the best up-to-date Price Bat content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pricebat.ca

Canada premier price comparison shopping site; Search & compare Canada online store prices before you buy computer products, electronics, Softwares and games.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pricebat.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 545 ms and then it took 4.3 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

pricebat.ca performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.141

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pricebat.ca

545 ms

global.css

269 ms

index.css

192 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

357 ms

pb.min.js

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Pricebat.ca, 83% (88 requests) were made to Img.pricebat.ca and 5% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (903 ms) relates to the external source Img.pricebat.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

717.6 kB

After Optimization

307.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Pricebat.ca main page is 717.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 319.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 60.0 kB

  • Original 70.5 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. 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 60.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 200.6 kB
  • After minification 189.9 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. Price Bat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 127.2 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB
  • After compression 62.3 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 64.9 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 274.8 kB

  • Original 319.2 kB
  • After minification 264.8 kB
  • After compression 44.4 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. Pricebat.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 274.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (45%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Price Bat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pricebat.ca accessibility score

48

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

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

pricebat.ca best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pricebat.ca SEO score

54

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Pricebat.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 Pricebat.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 Price Bat. 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: