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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

dev.newscanada.com

Fresh, copyright-free Canadian lifestyle content - News Canada

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dev.newscanada.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 7.6 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

dev.newscanada.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value42.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value44.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value45.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value44.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dev.newscanada.com

241 ms

dev.newscanada.com

475 ms

home

5537 ms

jquery-ui.css

54 ms

bootstrap.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Dev.newscanada.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Dev.newscanada.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.1 MB (63%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dev.newscanada.com main page is 6.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 18.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 870.0 kB
  • After minification 864.4 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. Dev News Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 3.6 MB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.9 MB
  • After compression 1.4 MB

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 3.6 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 441.8 kB

  • Original 522.4 kB
  • After minification 483.3 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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. Dev.newscanada.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 441.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (46%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dev News Canada. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dev.newscanada.com accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dev.newscanada.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

dev.newscanada.com SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Dev.newscanada.com 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 Dev.newscanada.com 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 Dev News Canada. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: