Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

startupcommunities.ca

Home Page - Startup Canada

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

892 ms

startupcommunities.ca screenshot

About Website

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

Connecting Canada’s entrepreneurs with the tools, community, and support they need to start and build their businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startupcommunities.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

startupcommunities.ca performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.27

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.startupcan.ca

131 ms

www.startupcan.ca

83 ms

slick.css

281 ms

slick-theme.css

295 ms

js

777 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Startupcommunities.ca, 8% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Use.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 312.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Startupcommunities.ca main page is 1.7 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 90.7 kB

  • Original 107.4 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.6 kB, which is 16% 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 90.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 141.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Obviously, Startup Communities needs image optimization as it can save up to 141.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 63.0 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 74.5 kB

  • Original 212.6 kB
  • After minification 185.8 kB
  • After compression 138.1 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. Startupcommunities.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 74.5 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (88%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Startup Communities. 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 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

startupcommunities.ca accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

startupcommunities.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

startupcommunities.ca SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Startupcommunities.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 Startupcommunities.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 data is detected on the main page of Startup Communities. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: