Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

americanidol.ca

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Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanidol.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 5.4 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

americanidol.ca performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.6

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.americanidol.com

345 ms

2364010203.js

19 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

85 ms

css_DHcXHPYBSjIVaCQZEG4ZlpLkvslnFlBCnQUCzlbRBio.css

92 ms

css_bzenEexKMrydLvw4KzTPAMUXyEFe9FHxDEvlpkGAHxc.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Americanidol.ca, 4% (8 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 4% (8 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (52%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanidol.ca main page is 5.1 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 175.2 kB

  • Original 207.2 kB
  • After minification 198.9 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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 175.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. American Idol images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 493.6 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 1.8 MB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 692.6 kB

  • Original 924.8 kB
  • After minification 914.1 kB
  • After compression 232.3 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. Americanidol.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 692.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (57%)

Requests Now

178

After Optimization

77

The browser has sent 178 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American Idol. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americanidol.ca accessibility score

86

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

americanidol.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

Serves images with low resolution

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

americanidol.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Americanidol.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Americanidol.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 American Idol. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: