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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

friam.ca

Friday AM - the free, weekly paper of Salmon Arm and the Shuswap - Read Online

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

397 ms

Resources Loaded

690 ms

Page Rendered

172 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Friam content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about friam.ca

Your free, weekly paper. News, views and the complete events guide to Salmon Arm and the Shuswap. Circulation (Weekly): 3200 copies and 5000 on 1st Friday ('All Month')

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Key Findings

We analyzed Friam.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 397 ms and then it took 862 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

friam.ca performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

friam.ca

397 ms

style.css

107 ms

style.min.css

109 ms

js

83 ms

email-decode.min.js

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Friam.ca, 18% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) belongs to the original domain Friam.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

136.0 kB

After Optimization

120.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Friam.ca main page is 136.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 79.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 13.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 77.3 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. Friam images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 67 B

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 16.9 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Friam.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (27%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Friam. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

friam.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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

friam.ca best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

friam.ca SEO score

97

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

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