Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

workinsask.com

Work in Sask - the employment directory in Saskatchewan

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

835 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Workinsask.com page load time and found that the first response time was 835 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

workinsask.com performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

workinsask.com

835 ms

style_workinsk.css

37 ms

show_ads.js

7 ms

ca-pub-8484433764065384.js

73 ms

zrt_lookup.html

121 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Workinsask.com, 24% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 19% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (835 ms) belongs to the original domain Workinsask.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

112.3 kB

After Optimization

88.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Workinsask.com main page is 112.3 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 48.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 2.1 kB, which is 14% 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 11.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 47.2 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. Work In Sask images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 6.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 3.5 kB
  • After compression 945 B

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. Workinsask.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (35%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Work In Sask. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

workinsask.com accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

workinsask.com 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

SEO Factors

workinsask.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Workinsask.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed French language. Our system also found out that Workinsask.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Work In Sask. 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: