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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

directenergy.ca

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Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Directenergy.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

directenergy.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,070 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.268

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directenergy.ca

41 ms

www.directenergy.ca

172 ms

all.min.css

100 ms

jquery.min.js

114 ms

index.min.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Directenergy.ca, 13% (13 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 12% (12 requests) were made to S3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) relates to the external source Analytics.analytics-egain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Directenergy.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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 222.5 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 248.7 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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 30.3 kB, which is 11% 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 222.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Direct Energy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 71.5 kB

  • Original 198.1 kB
  • After minification 175.6 kB
  • After compression 126.7 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 71.5 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 63.0 kB

  • Original 85.1 kB
  • After minification 60.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Directenergy.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (78%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Energy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

directenergy.ca

directenergy.ca

41 ms

www.directenergy.ca

www.directenergy.ca

172 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

100 ms

jquery.min.js

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114 ms

index.min.js

index.min.js

111 ms

langs.js

langs.js

147 ms

bounce-general.js

bounce-general.js

151 ms

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130 ms

css

css

130 ms

slick.css

slick.css

106 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

107 ms

bootstrap-toggle.min.css

bootstrap-toggle.min.css

130 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

105 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

129 ms

jquery.mask.min.js

jquery.mask.min.js

128 ms

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jquery.de_popup.js

298 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.js

bootstrap-datepicker.js

127 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

127 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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136 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

102 ms

all.css

all.css

737 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

135 ms

addr.js

addr.js

87 ms

direct-main.css

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319 ms

addr.js

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260 ms

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201 ms

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249 ms

ca_flag_round.png

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1065 ms

logoHeader.png

logoHeader.png

550 ms

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ca_flag1.png

1080 ms

us_flag1.png

us_flag1.png

1077 ms

logo_de_mobile.png

logo_de_mobile.png

504 ms

proof-free-energy.png

proof-free-energy.png

1002 ms

backTop.png

backTop.png

116 ms

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826 ms

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436 ms

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923 ms

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1039 ms

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1037 ms

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1932 ms

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967 ms

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bat.js

3195 ms

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2507 ms

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2485 ms

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2477 ms

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2476 ms

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2471 ms

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621 ms

pixie.js

pixie.js

2470 ms

invoca-latest.min.js

invoca-latest.min.js

2468 ms

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3643 ms

activity

activity

2466 ms

js

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766 ms

Icons.svg

Icons.svg

671 ms

logo_de_mobile.png

logo_de_mobile.png

578 ms

logoHeader.png

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577 ms

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fa-brands-400.woff

631 ms

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390 ms

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1500 ms

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3133 ms

proof-childrens-hospital.png

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3308 ms

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1101 ms

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3273 ms

proof-free-energy.png

proof-free-energy.png

3098 ms

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person_left_5sm.png

3027 ms

person_right_2sm.png

person_right_2sm.png

2957 ms

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2951 ms

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2285 ms

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2472 ms

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2457 ms

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1333 ms

identity.js

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1025 ms

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1228 ms

collect

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881 ms

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858 ms

conversion_async.js

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896 ms

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loader.js

839 ms

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369 ms

collect

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265 ms

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199 ms

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72 ms

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260 ms

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261 ms

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42 ms

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126 ms

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76 ms

Accessibility Review

directenergy.ca accessibility score

86

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

directenergy.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

directenergy.ca SEO score

85

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

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 Directenergy.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 Directenergy.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

directenergy.ca

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