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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

support.thetyee.ca

Support fact-based independent journalism -- The Tyee

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Support.thetyee.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 5.3 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

support.thetyee.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

support.thetyee.ca

30 ms

support.thetyee.ca

2166 ms

styles.css

411 ms

modernizr.js

563 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Support.thetyee.ca, 33% (13 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 31% (12 requests) were made to Static.thetyee.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Support.thetyee.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.9 kB (21%)

Content Size

525.6 kB

After Optimization

415.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Support.thetyee.ca main page is 525.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 415.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 8.0 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 54.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 18 B

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 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. Support The Tyee images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 415.4 kB
  • After minification 415.4 kB
  • After compression 360.2 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 55.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 683 B

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Support.thetyee.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (52%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Support The Tyee. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

support.thetyee.ca accessibility score

63

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

support.thetyee.ca 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

support.thetyee.ca SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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