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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

canadianauthors.org

Canadian Authors Association - Writers helping writers since 1921

Page Load Speed

13.7 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

328 ms

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About Website

Welcome to canadianauthors.org homepage info - get ready to check Canadian Authors best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about canadianauthors.org

We are a membership-based organization for writers at all stages of their writing careers—aspiring, emerging, and professional. Dedicated to promoting a flourishing community of writers across Canada ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadianauthors.org page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canadianauthors.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.242

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

2846 ms

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Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (123 requests) were addressed to the original Canadianauthors.org, 4% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Canadianauthors.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 490.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canadianauthors.org main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 359.2 kB

  • Original 427.1 kB
  • After minification 407.2 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 359.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 67.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Canadian Authors images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 497.5 kB
  • After minification 497.5 kB
  • After compression 478.2 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 44.9 kB

  • Original 403.1 kB
  • After minification 402.1 kB
  • After compression 358.3 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. Canadianauthors.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (88%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canadian Authors. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 57 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

canadianauthors.org accessibility score

58

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

canadianauthors.org SEO score

70

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Canadianauthors.org 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 Canadianauthors.org 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

canadianauthors.org

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