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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

thoroldnews.com

ThoroldToday.ca - Local News Headlines for Thorold Ontario - Thorold News

Page Load Speed

966 ms in total

First Response

75 ms

Resources Loaded

557 ms

Page Rendered

334 ms

About Website

Visit thoroldnews.com now to see the best up-to-date Thorold News content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thoroldnews.com

Thorold's local news source. Local news from local journalists, photos, video, sports, weekly flyers, entertainment and more -- all on ThoroldNews.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thoroldnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 75 ms and then it took 891 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

thoroldnews.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thoroldtoday.ca

75 ms

template

18 ms

js

106 ms

gpt.js

69 ms

get.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thoroldnews.com, 11% (5 requests) were made to Thoroldtoday.ca and 4% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (194 ms) relates to the external source Vmcdn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.4 kB (44%)

Content Size

422.2 kB

After Optimization

237.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thoroldnews.com main page is 422.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 235.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 134.1 kB

  • Original 167.6 kB
  • After minification 154.6 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 134.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 17.2 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. Obviously, Thorold News needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 235.3 kB
  • After minification 235.3 kB
  • After compression 187.1 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 48.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (74%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thorold News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thoroldnews.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

thoroldnews.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thoroldnews.com SEO score

96

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