Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

dyingwithdignity.ca

Dying With Dignity Canada | It's your life. It's your choice.

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

137 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to dyingwithdignity.ca homepage info - get ready to check Dying With Dignity best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about dyingwithdignity.ca

Dying With Dignity Canada (DWDC) is the national human-rights charity committed to improving quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping Canadians avoid unwanted suffering.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dyingwithdignity.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 137 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dyingwithdignity.ca performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dyingwithdignity.ca

137 ms

theme.scss

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

52 ms

api.js

79 ms

jquery-ui.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Dyingwithdignity.ca, 36% (23 requests) were made to D3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net and 14% (9 requests) were made to Dwdcanada.nationbuilder.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (421 ms) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 925.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Dyingwithdignity.ca main page is 5.6 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 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 29.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Dying With Dignity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 631.2 kB

  • Original 949.0 kB
  • After minification 948.8 kB
  • After compression 317.8 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 631.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 218.1 kB

  • Original 323.4 kB
  • After minification 322.7 kB
  • After compression 105.3 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. Dyingwithdignity.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 218.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (44%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dying With Dignity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dyingwithdignity.ca accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

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

dyingwithdignity.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dyingwithdignity.ca SEO score

93

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

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 Dyingwithdignity.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 Dyingwithdignity.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 Dying With Dignity. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: