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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

energyrates.ca

Compare Electricity and Natural Gas Rates – EnergyRates.ca

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

707 ms

Page Rendered

277 ms

energyrates.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit energyrates.ca now to see the best up-to-date Energy Rates content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about energyrates.ca

Fixed Rate plans give you a single, guaranteed rate for your electricity or natural gas that won't change, regardless of what the energy market is doing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Energyrates.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 984 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

energyrates.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

energyrates.ca

159 ms

energyrates.ca

76 ms

style.css

16 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

styles.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Energyrates.ca, 7% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (289 ms) belongs to the original domain Energyrates.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Energyrates.ca main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 859.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 147.4 kB

  • Original 180.1 kB
  • After minification 178.3 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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 147.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 859.7 kB
  • After minification 859.7 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. Energy Rates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 528 B

  • Original 829.4 kB
  • After minification 829.4 kB
  • After compression 828.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 112.2 kB
  • After minification 112.2 kB
  • After compression 112.1 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. Energyrates.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (64%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Energy Rates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

energyrates.ca

energyrates.ca

159 ms

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76 ms

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16 ms

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29 ms

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31 ms

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21 ms

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22 ms

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22 ms

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33 ms

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35 ms

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53 ms

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47 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

51 ms

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70 ms

jquery.min.js

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52 ms

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52 ms

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65 ms

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111 ms

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86 ms

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110 ms

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84 ms

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30 ms

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125 ms

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113 ms

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114 ms

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113 ms

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123 ms

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289 ms

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116 ms

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117 ms

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117 ms

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129 ms

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130 ms

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127 ms

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126 ms

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127 ms

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129 ms

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56 ms

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50 ms

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73 ms

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58 ms

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255 ms

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197 ms

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255 ms

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199 ms

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243 ms

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79 ms

Accessibility Review

energyrates.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

energyrates.ca best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

energyrates.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Energyrates.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 Energyrates.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

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