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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% 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

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

bradfordtoday.ca

Bradford News - Local News for Bradford - West Gwillimbury - Bradford News

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

108 ms

Resources Loaded

510 ms

Page Rendered

542 ms

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About Website

Visit bradfordtoday.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bradford Today content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bradfordtoday.ca

BradfordToday includes local news from local journalists along with photos, video, sports, events, classifieds, weekly flyers, entertainment -- updated regularly - all on BradfordToday.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bradfordtoday.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 108 ms and then it took 1.1 sec 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

bradfordtoday.ca performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bradfordtoday.ca

108 ms

template

13 ms

js

170 ms

gpt.js

119 ms

get.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Bradfordtoday.ca, 45% (9 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 10% (2 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (237 ms) relates to the external source Vmcdn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.2 kB (59%)

Content Size

194.7 kB

After Optimization

80.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bradfordtoday.ca main page is 194.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 133.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 133.2 kB
  • After minification 117.6 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 15.5 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 112.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 20.1 kB
  • After minification 17.9 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, Bradford Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 6 B

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 41.5 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (58%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bradford Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bradfordtoday.ca

www.bradfordtoday.ca

108 ms

template

template

13 ms

js

js

170 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

119 ms

get.js

get.js

167 ms

widgets

widgets

63 ms

template

template

88 ms

logo_bradfordtoday_yellow_233x40.svg

logo_bradfordtoday_yellow_233x40.svg

176 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

34 ms

user-o-w.svg

user-o-w.svg

230 ms

search.svg

search.svg

232 ms

gallery.svg

gallery.svg

233 ms

logo_looklocal2.png;w=200

logo_looklocal2.png;w=200

237 ms

bra.png;w=200

bra.png;w=200

234 ms

facebook-w.svg

facebook-w.svg

232 ms

x-w.svg

x-w.svg

236 ms

instagram-w.svg

instagram-w.svg

234 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

108 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

49 ms

11125.jsx

11125.jsx

115 ms

Accessibility Review

bradfordtoday.ca 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

bradfordtoday.ca 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

bradfordtoday.ca SEO score

97

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 Bradfordtoday.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 Bradfordtoday.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

bradfordtoday.ca

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