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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

dollarstore.ca

HOME - Your Dollar Store With More Inc.

Page Load Speed

817 ms in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

495 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

dollarstore.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Dollar Store content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dollarstore.ca

Your Dollar Store with More is Canada’s largest dollar store franchise chain with well over a hundred locations across Canada. Since 1998, Your Dollar Store with More has been fine tuning their franch...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dollarstore.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 619 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dollarstore.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dollarstore.ca

198 ms

splash.css

73 ms

swfobject.js

138 ms

analytics.js

14 ms

logo.gif

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Dollarstore.ca, 25% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (198 ms) belongs to the original domain Dollarstore.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.2 kB (48%)

Content Size

90.0 kB

After Optimization

46.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dollarstore.ca main page is 90.0 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 58.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 5.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 20.2 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. Dollar Store images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 36.1 kB

  • Original 58.9 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 36.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 606 B

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. Dollarstore.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dollar Store. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

dollarstore.ca

dollarstore.ca

198 ms

splash.css

splash.css

73 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

138 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

14 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

73 ms

splash-bg.jpg

splash-bg.jpg

139 ms

login-bg.gif

login-bg.gif

144 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

Accessibility Review

dollarstore.ca accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

dollarstore.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dollarstore.ca SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dollarstore.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Dollarstore.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

dollarstore.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dollar Store. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: