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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bulkbarn.ca

Bulk Barn

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

120 ms

Resources Loaded

795 ms

Page Rendered

108 ms

bulkbarn.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Bulk Barn content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bulkbarn.ca

Bulk Barn is Canada's largest bulk food retailer. We carry over 4,000 products - everything from soup to nuts, candy and snacks, baking ingredients, health and natural food products, and much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bulkbarn.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 120 ms and then it took 903 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

bulkbarn.ca performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home

120 ms

GetResource.ashx

138 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

105 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

53 ms

WebResource.axd

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Bulkbarn.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) belongs to the original domain Bulkbarn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 990.6 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

883.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bulkbarn.ca main page is 1.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 955.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 74.3 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 12.2 kB, which is 16% 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 59.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 566.4 kB
  • After minification 536.6 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. Bulk Barn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 660.6 kB

  • Original 955.4 kB
  • After minification 892.4 kB
  • After compression 294.8 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 660.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 240.9 kB

  • Original 278.4 kB
  • After minification 274.3 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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. Bulkbarn.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (70%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bulk Barn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Home

Home

120 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

138 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

105 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

53 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

90 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

62 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

101 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

105 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

69 ms

gumby.js

gumby.js

72 ms

gumby.retina.js

gumby.retina.js

73 ms

gumby.fixed.js

gumby.fixed.js

79 ms

gumby.init.js

gumby.init.js

82 ms

accounting.min.js

accounting.min.js

82 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

100 ms

main.js

main.js

101 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

104 ms

bb_stringslist.js

bb_stringslist.js

107 ms

bulk_barn_utilities.js

bulk_barn_utilities.js

107 ms

bulk_barn_data.js

bulk_barn_data.js

113 ms

bulk_barn_display.js

bulk_barn_display.js

129 ms

bulk_barn_form.js

bulk_barn_form.js

130 ms

bulk_barn_mapping.js

bulk_barn_mapping.js

130 ms

bulk_barn.js

bulk_barn.js

132 ms

bulkbarn_fonts.css

bulkbarn_fonts.css

46 ms

notice_icon.png

notice_icon.png

36 ms

black_hash_fill.png

black_hash_fill.png

37 ms

arrow-down-open.png

arrow-down-open.png

35 ms

lg_bb_logo.png

lg_bb_logo.png

36 ms

sm_bb_logo.png

sm_bb_logo.png

36 ms

blank.png

blank.png

67 ms

lg_but_menu_sprite.png

lg_but_menu_sprite.png

67 ms

lg_but_search_sprite.png

lg_but_search_sprite.png

65 ms

blank.png

blank.png

65 ms

dt_icon_location.png

dt_icon_location.png

65 ms

logo_ptp_footer.png

logo_ptp_footer.png

90 ms

instagram-16.png

instagram-16.png

89 ms

facebook-3-16.png

facebook-3-16.png

87 ms

twitter-3-16.png

twitter-3-16.png

89 ms

pinterest-2-16.png

pinterest-2-16.png

85 ms

104522Main_Carousel_JubeJubes.jpg

104522Main_Carousel_JubeJubes.jpg

136 ms

478Main_Carousel_Nuts.jpg

478Main_Carousel_Nuts.jpg

137 ms

856Main_Carousel_Chocolate.jpg

856Main_Carousel_Chocolate.jpg

139 ms

847Homepage_Main_Spices.jpg

847Homepage_Main_Spices.jpg

163 ms

FoundationSans-Bold-webfont.woff

FoundationSans-Bold-webfont.woff

112 ms

FoundationSans-Roman-webfont.woff

FoundationSans-Roman-webfont.woff

116 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

13 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

collect

collect

60 ms

Accessibility Review

bulkbarn.ca accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

bulkbarn.ca best practices score

50

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bulkbarn.ca SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bulkbarn.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Bulkbarn.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

bulkbarn.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bulk Barn. 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: