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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

blackhistorycanada.ca

Black History in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Black History Canada content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about blackhistorycanada.ca

History, politics, arts, science & more: the Canadian Encyclopedia is your reference on Canada. Articles, timelines & resources for teachers, students & public.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackhistorycanada.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackhistorycanada.ca performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackhistorycanada.ca

113 ms

black-history-in-canada

385 ms

gtm.js

130 ms

styles.css

37 ms

trumbowyg.min.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blackhistorycanada.ca, 48% (36 requests) were made to Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca and 16% (12 requests) were made to D14fiu1i7ba797.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (698 ms) relates to the external source D14fiu1i7ba797.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (12%)

Content Size

11.8 MB

After Optimization

10.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blackhistorycanada.ca main page is 11.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 11.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 176.0 kB

  • Original 192.1 kB
  • After minification 113.0 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 79.1 kB, which is 41% 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 176.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 11.4 MB
  • After minification 10.1 MB

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, Black History Canada needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 164.3 kB
  • After minification 164.3 kB
  • After compression 161.3 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 67 B

  • Original 37.7 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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. Blackhistorycanada.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (25%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black History 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blackhistorycanada.ca

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113 ms

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385 ms

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130 ms

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37 ms

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36 ms

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20 ms

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24 ms

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125 ms

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124 ms

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125 ms

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125 ms

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126 ms

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130 ms

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Accessibility Review

blackhistorycanada.ca accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blackhistorycanada.ca best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

blackhistorycanada.ca SEO score

79

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Blackhistorycanada.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 Blackhistorycanada.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

blackhistorycanada.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Black History Canada. 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: