Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

affta.ab.ca

Alberta Foundation for the Arts | Home

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

244 ms

affta.ab.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Affta content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about affta.ab.ca

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is the Government of Alberta’s primary supporter of the arts, offering access to grant programming and a provincial art collection.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Affta.ab.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

affta.ab.ca performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

affta.ab.ca

230 ms

Home

557 ms

bootstrap.css

440 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

271 ms

style.css

331 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Affta.ab.ca, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Affta.ab.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 389.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

662.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Affta.ab.ca main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 587.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 38.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 30.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 587.0 kB
  • After minification 565.8 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. Affta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 190.1 kB

  • Original 250.6 kB
  • After minification 189.0 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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 190.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 147.2 kB

  • Original 173.6 kB
  • After minification 135.9 kB
  • After compression 26.5 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. Affta.ab.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (62%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Affta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

affta.ab.ca accessibility score

73

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

[role] values are not valid

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

affta.ab.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

affta.ab.ca SEO score

82

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