Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

canada-day.ca

Canada Day Fireworks, Parade, and Activities for Canada Day 2014

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

740 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

217 ms

canada-day.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit canada-day.ca now to see the best up-to-date Canada Day content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about canada-day.ca

Find out what local Canada Day events will be happening in your area including fireworks and parade information, activities that you can do with your family, and the history of Canada day.

Visit canada-day.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Canada-day.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 740 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canada-day.ca performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canada-day.ca

740 ms

www.canada-day-events.com

582 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

87 ms

lr-social-sharing-front.css

91 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Canada-day.ca, 33% (14 requests) were made to Canada-day-events.com and 14% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (740 ms) belongs to the original domain Canada-day.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 347.3 kB (51%)

Content Size

678.0 kB

After Optimization

330.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Canada-day.ca main page is 678.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 294.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 42.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 188.9 kB
  • After minification 185.0 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. Canada Day images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 187.8 kB

  • Original 294.0 kB
  • After minification 284.0 kB
  • After compression 106.1 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 187.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 112.7 kB

  • Original 143.0 kB
  • After minification 120.1 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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. Canada-day.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 112.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (55%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canada Day. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

canada-day.ca accessibility score

59

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

canada-day.ca best practices score

42

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

canada-day.ca SEO score

69

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

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 Canada-day.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 Canada-day.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

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