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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

careerstep.ca

Online Career Training | Certificate Programs | CareerStep

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

847 ms

Page Rendered

933 ms

careerstep.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Career Step content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about careerstep.ca

CareerStep offers practical, affordable career training. If you are looking for personalized, flexible online training in healthcare or IT certification, give us a call today!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Careerstep.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

careerstep.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

careerstep.ca

77 ms

www.careerstep.com

109 ms

c8fb3b2ebe.js

66 ms

front.min.css

40 ms

style.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Careerstep.ca, 79% (54 requests) were made to Careerstep.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (446 ms) relates to the external source Careerstep.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 271.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Careerstep.ca main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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 914.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 123.3 kB

  • Original 165.0 kB
  • After minification 156.0 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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 123.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 914.8 kB
  • After minification 785.1 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, Career Step needs image optimization as it can save up to 129.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 180.3 kB
  • After compression 166.6 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 91.0 kB
  • After compression 86.0 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. Careerstep.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (62%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Career Step. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

careerstep.ca

careerstep.ca

77 ms

www.careerstep.com

www.careerstep.com

109 ms

c8fb3b2ebe.js

c8fb3b2ebe.js

66 ms

front.min.css

front.min.css

40 ms

style.css

style.css

75 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

102 ms

main.css

main.css

97 ms

mmenu.css

mmenu.css

72 ms

iqn0ppl.css

iqn0ppl.css

58 ms

front.min.js

front.min.js

99 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

103 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

100 ms

livevalidation_standalone.js

livevalidation_standalone.js

103 ms

public.js

public.js

102 ms

default_validation.js

default_validation.js

103 ms

swiper.min.js

swiper.min.js

136 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

44 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

95 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

theme-ie11.min.css

125 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

126 ms

main.js

main.js

227 ms

main.js

main.js

229 ms

mmenu.js

mmenu.js

230 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

231 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

229 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

237 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

238 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

235 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

238 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

238 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

363 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

363 ms

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

361 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

361 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

361 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

360 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

446 ms

akismet-frontend.js

akismet-frontend.js

446 ms

p.css

p.css

37 ms

analytics.min.js

analytics.min.js

274 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

418 ms

munchkin.js

munchkin.js

405 ms

logo-6-300x46.png

logo-6-300x46.png

238 ms

icon-chevron.png

icon-chevron.png

238 ms

hero-home.jpg

hero-home.jpg

314 ms

entry-level.jpg

entry-level.jpg

238 ms

professionals.jpg

professionals.jpg

243 ms

health-orgs.jpg

health-orgs.jpg

243 ms

health-team.jpg

health-team.jpg

314 ms

program-med-assistant.jpg

program-med-assistant.jpg

312 ms

program-med-coding-billing.jpg

program-med-coding-billing.jpg

244 ms

card-chds@2x.jpg

card-chds@2x.jpg

313 ms

card-pharm.jpg

card-pharm.jpg

313 ms

program-dental-assistant.jpg

program-dental-assistant.jpg

312 ms

card-hemo-tech.jpg

card-hemo-tech.jpg

315 ms

card-patient-care.jpg

card-patient-care.jpg

314 ms

better-career.jpg

better-career.jpg

315 ms

illustration-1.png

illustration-1.png

315 ms

illustration-2.png

illustration-2.png

315 ms

illustration-3.png

illustration-3.png

316 ms

bg-teal-arrows.png

bg-teal-arrows.png

313 ms

form-image.jpg

form-image.jpg

314 ms

Division-Primary-White-Color-Bug.png

Division-Primary-White-Color-Bug.png

312 ms

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229 ms

Accessibility Review

careerstep.ca accessibility score

94

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

careerstep.ca best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

careerstep.ca SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Careerstep.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 Careerstep.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

careerstep.ca

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