Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

yelp.ca

Toronto Restaurants, Dentists, Bars, Beauty Salons, Doctors - Yelp

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

63 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

484 ms

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About Website

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Toronto - User Reviews and Recommendations of Top Restaurants, Shopping, Nightlife, Entertainment, Services and More at Yelp

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yelp.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 63 ms and then it took 1.8 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

yelp.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yelp.ca

63 ms

manassas-va-us

590 ms

ga.js

15 ms

www-pkg.css

57 ms

homepage.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Yelp.ca, 22% (16 requests) were made to S3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com and 21% (15 requests) were made to S3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (590 ms) belongs to the original domain Yelp.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Yelp.ca main page is 2.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 129.1 kB

  • Original 156.2 kB
  • After minification 122.3 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 33.8 kB, which is 22% 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 129.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 127.6 kB

  • Original 754.7 kB
  • After minification 627.1 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. Obviously, Yelp needs image optimization as it can save up to 127.6 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 964.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 449.1 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 964.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 516.5 kB

  • Original 607.0 kB
  • After minification 603.8 kB
  • After compression 90.5 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. Yelp.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 516.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (25%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yelp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yelp.ca accessibility score

91

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

yelp.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

yelp.ca SEO score

83

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Yelp.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 Yelp.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 Yelp. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: