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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

englishencounters.ca

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

109 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

383 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Englishencounters.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

englishencounters.ca performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,310 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

englishencounters.ca

109 ms

englishencounters.ca

960 ms

formidableforms.css

108 ms

style.min.css

210 ms

style.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Englishencounters.ca, 16% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Englishencounters.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 224.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Englishencounters.ca main page is 3.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 144.1 kB

  • Original 175.2 kB
  • After minification 171.1 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 144.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. English Encounters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 965.1 kB
  • After minification 965.0 kB
  • After compression 948.7 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 145.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 138.3 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. Englishencounters.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (66%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of English Encounters. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

englishencounters.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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

englishencounters.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

englishencounters.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Englishencounters.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 Englishencounters.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 English Encounters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: