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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

affirm.ca

Affirm | Buy now, pay later with no late fees or surprises

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

57 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to affirm.ca homepage info - get ready to check Affirm best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about affirm.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Affirm.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 57 ms and then it took 2.8 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

affirm.ca performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.19

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

affirm.ca

57 ms

en-ca

127 ms

analytics.min.js

54 ms

index-a82ed0fb5bff88f6989a.js

80 ms

tracker-b7673dc58df5f012ef86.js

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Affirm.ca, 14% (9 requests) were made to Affirm.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (354 ms) relates to the external source S.pinimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 827.2 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

471.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Affirm.ca main page is 1.3 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 944.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 809.6 kB

  • Original 944.6 kB
  • After minification 944.5 kB
  • After compression 135.0 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. 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 809.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 95 B
  • After minification 95 B

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. Affirm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 256.9 kB
  • After minification 256.9 kB
  • After compression 247.9 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 88.3 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. Affirm.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (80%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Affirm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

affirm.ca

affirm.ca

57 ms

en-ca

en-ca

127 ms

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analytics.min.js

54 ms

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80 ms

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tracker-b7673dc58df5f012ef86.js

91 ms

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165 ms

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37 ms

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157 ms

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57 ms

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120 ms

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119 ms

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184 ms

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56 ms

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157 ms

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159 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

146 ms

Homepage_Hero_Banner.jpg

Homepage_Hero_Banner.jpg

187 ms

Homepage_EasyToApply_1.svg

Homepage_EasyToApply_1.svg

166 ms

Homepage_NoFee_2.svg

Homepage_NoFee_2.svg

227 ms

Homepage_TellItLikeItIs_3.svg

Homepage_TellItLikeItIs_3.svg

225 ms

instagram-icon-01.svg

instagram-icon-01.svg

171 ms

twitter-icon-01.svg

twitter-icon-01.svg

168 ms

linkedIn-icon-01.svg

linkedIn-icon-01.svg

172 ms

js

js

137 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

201 ms

js

js

201 ms

hotjar-1997848.js

hotjar-1997848.js

289 ms

destination

destination

168 ms

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destination

239 ms

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destination

283 ms

core.js

core.js

354 ms

branch-latest.min.js

branch-latest.min.js

275 ms

bat.js

bat.js

353 ms

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353 ms

4907.js

4907.js

352 ms

tv2track.js

tv2track.js

346 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

266 ms

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109 ms

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99 ms

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tv2track.php

62 ms

sync

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65 ms

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sync

53 ms

tap.php

tap.php

89 ms

ip.json

ip.json

92 ms

82 ms

up.js

up.js

39 ms

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100 ms

69 ms

94 ms

log

log

19 ms

rum

rum

29 ms

37 ms

39 ms

asyncPixelSync

asyncPixelSync

11 ms

15 ms

demconf.jpg

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18 ms

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52 ms

qmap

qmap

15 ms

pixel.gif

pixel.gif

152 ms

check

check

32 ms

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73 ms

pd.js

pd.js

23 ms

Accessibility Review

affirm.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

affirm.ca best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

affirm.ca SEO score

91

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

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 Affirm.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 Affirm.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

affirm.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Affirm. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: