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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

businesslink.ca

Home | We help Alberta small businesses start and succeed.

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

businesslink.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Businesslink.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

businesslink.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

businesslink.ca

142 ms

businesslink.ca

904 ms

main.min.css

182 ms

css

31 ms

astra-addon-66ab9033efbc97-07369546.css

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Businesslink.ca, 18% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (904 ms) belongs to the original domain Businesslink.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Businesslink.ca main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 328.2 kB

  • Original 377.4 kB
  • After minification 367.6 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. 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 328.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Businesslink images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26 B

  • Original 4.3 kB
  • After minification 4.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 85.1 kB
  • After compression 83.6 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. Businesslink.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (63%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Businesslink. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

businesslink.ca

businesslink.ca

142 ms

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904 ms

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182 ms

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css

31 ms

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130 ms

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199 ms

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198 ms

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206 ms

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207 ms

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216 ms

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220 ms

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271 ms

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269 ms

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274 ms

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275 ms

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288 ms

css

css

17 ms

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jquery.min.js

362 ms

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339 ms

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63 ms

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340 ms

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320 ms

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323 ms

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550 ms

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552 ms

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live-search.min.js

550 ms

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551 ms

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554 ms

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46 ms

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552 ms

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553 ms

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webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

554 ms

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webpack.runtime.min.js

554 ms

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frontend-modules.min.js

555 ms

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555 ms

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556 ms

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frontend.min.js

555 ms

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waypoints.min.js

555 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

556 ms

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frontend.min.js

576 ms

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elements-handlers.min.js

577 ms

gtm.js

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198 ms

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Accessibility Review

businesslink.ca accessibility score

83

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

businesslink.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

businesslink.ca SEO score

90

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Businesslink.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 Businesslink.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

businesslink.ca

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