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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

3mcanada.ca

3M Science. Applied to Life. | 3M Canada

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 3mcanada.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

3mcanada.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.599

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

3mcanada.ca

40 ms

3mcanada.ca

56 ms

www.3mcanada.ca

98 ms

354 ms

utag.sync.js

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original 3mcanada.ca, 33% (30 requests) were made to Multimedia.3m.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain 3mcanada.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (6%)

Content Size

21.8 MB

After Optimization

20.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 3mcanada.ca main page is 21.8 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. Images take 20.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 79.9 kB

  • Original 96.1 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 18.8 kB, which is 20% 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 79.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 323.6 kB

  • Original 20.4 MB
  • After minification 20.0 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. 3M Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 502.2 kB

  • Original 804.4 kB
  • After minification 804.3 kB
  • After compression 302.3 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 502.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 363.6 kB

  • Original 513.7 kB
  • After minification 494.4 kB
  • After compression 150.1 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. 3mcanada.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 363.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (37%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 3M Canada. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

3mcanada.ca

3mcanada.ca

40 ms

3mcanada.ca

3mcanada.ca

56 ms

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98 ms

354 ms

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57 ms

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40 ms

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35 ms

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43 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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Accessibility Review

3mcanada.ca accessibility score

98

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

3mcanada.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

3mcanada.ca SEO score

84

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

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 3mcanada.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 3mcanada.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

3mcanada.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 3M Canada. 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: