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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

balancejunkie.ca

MapleMoney - The Canadian Source For Personal Finance

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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About Website

Welcome to balancejunkie.ca homepage info - get ready to check Balancejunkie best content right away, or after learning these important things about balancejunkie.ca

Originally the Canadian Finance Blog, MapleMoney is the personal finance source for ways to save money, make money, invest money and spend money wisely.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Balancejunkie.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

balancejunkie.ca performance score

21

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,940 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

balancejunkie.ca

47 ms

balancejunkie.com

55 ms

maplemoney.com

101 ms

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13 ms

core_style.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Balancejunkie.ca, 70% (86 requests) were made to Maplemoney.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Woopra.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

905.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Balancejunkie.ca main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 637.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 155.8 kB

  • Original 186.2 kB
  • After minification 186.2 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 155.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4 B

  • Original 637.2 kB
  • After minification 637.2 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. Balancejunkie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 170.5 kB
  • After minification 170.4 kB
  • After compression 167.7 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 161 B

  • Original 69.9 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 69.7 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. Balancejunkie.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (48%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Balancejunkie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

balancejunkie.ca accessibility score

70

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

balancejunkie.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

balancejunkie.ca SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Balancejunkie.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 Balancejunkie.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

balancejunkie.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Balancejunkie. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: