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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com

Home | Edmonton Journal

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

845 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,150 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com

87 ms

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9 ms

edmontonjournal.com

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19 ms

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 177 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com, 12% (21 requests) were made to App.canada.com and 8% (15 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (511 ms) relates to the external source App.canada.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com main page is 3.4 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. 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. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 211.2 kB

  • Original 267.5 kB
  • After minification 257.8 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 211.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 547.9 kB
  • After minification 536.0 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. Wpmedia Edmonton Journal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 840.5 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 1.7 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 25.0 kB
  • After minification 10.9 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (46%)

Requests Now

151

After Optimization

82

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 151 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wpmedia Edmonton Journal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com 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

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com SEO score

99

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

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 Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com 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 Wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com 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

wpmedia.edmontonjournal.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wpmedia Edmonton Journal. 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: