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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

freefallmagazine.ca

Canada's Magazine of Exquisite writing. FreeFall is a literary magazine - Calgary, AB.

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

About Website

Welcome to freefallmagazine.ca homepage info - get ready to check Free Fall Magazine best content right away, or after learning these important things about freefallmagazine.ca

Published since 2007 by the FreeFall Literary Society of Calgary. Editors Micheline Maylor and Crystal Mackenzie

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefallmagazine.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefallmagazine.ca performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.191

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freefallmagazine.ca

320 ms

dr1es.css

288 ms

dr1f7.css

469 ms

dr1f7.css

547 ms

css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Freefallmagazine.ca, 17% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (672 ms) belongs to the original domain Freefallmagazine.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 321.3 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefallmagazine.ca main page is 1.5 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 601.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 66.2 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 75.9 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 66.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 601.5 kB
  • After minification 577.1 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. Free Fall Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 89.2 kB

  • Original 354.5 kB
  • After minification 354.5 kB
  • After compression 265.3 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 89.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 141.5 kB

  • Original 463.7 kB
  • After minification 463.7 kB
  • After compression 322.3 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. Freefallmagazine.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 141.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (55%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Fall Magazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

freefallmagazine.ca accessibility score

87

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

freefallmagazine.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

freefallmagazine.ca SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Freefallmagazine.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 Freefallmagazine.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 description is not detected on the main page of Free Fall Magazine. 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: