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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

gairdner.org

Gairdner Awards for Biomedical Research | Gairdner Foundation

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

83 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

537 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Gairdner content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gairdner.org

Through the Canada Gairdner Awards, the Gairdner Foundation recognizes accomplishments in biomedical research advancing humanity and the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gairdner.org page load time and found that the first response time was 83 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gairdner.org performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value570 ms

52/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.384

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gairdner.org

83 ms

www.gairdner.org

476 ms

aaf3can.css

122 ms

c1aa683917.js

90 ms

ScriptResource.axd

99 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Gairdner.org, 13% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (476 ms) belongs to the original domain Gairdner.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (28%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gairdner.org main page is 5.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 62.4 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.7 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 57.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Obviously, Gairdner needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 231.6 kB
  • After minification 231.6 kB
  • After compression 176.4 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 55.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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. Gairdner.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gairdner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gairdner.org

gairdner.org

83 ms

www.gairdner.org

www.gairdner.org

476 ms

aaf3can.css

aaf3can.css

122 ms

c1aa683917.js

c1aa683917.js

90 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

99 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

134 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

169 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

31 ms

kendo-ui-custom.min.js

kendo-ui-custom.min.js

215 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

158 ms

Search-box.min.js

Search-box.min.js

136 ms

CustomDefault.min.js

CustomDefault.min.js

137 ms

p.css

p.css

21 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

60 ms

webiste-pop-ups.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

webiste-pop-ups.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

177 ms

chevron-down.svg

chevron-down.svg

44 ms

chevron-up.svg

chevron-up.svg

43 ms

audio.svg

audio.svg

45 ms

plus.svg

plus.svg

46 ms

minus.svg

minus.svg

146 ms

bullet-square-solid.svg

bullet-square-solid.svg

146 ms

gairdner_logo-red.svg

gairdner_logo-red.svg

147 ms

awards.jpg

awards.jpg

208 ms

award-badge-icon.png

award-badge-icon.png

148 ms

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62113ebd5-269b-4b89-b905-bb611c2b1301.tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

235 ms

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may-precision-cancer-care-gpp-graphics-(3).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

234 ms

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eci-2023-(3).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

154 ms

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pre-announcement-sm-(twitter-post)-(13).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

251 ms

insight-fallback.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

insight-fallback.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

148 ms

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september-gpp-graphics-(2).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

263 ms

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gnjnsjdwwaaw02_.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

207 ms

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june-mrna-gpp-graphics-(3).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

280 ms

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symposium-poster-final.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

246 ms

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may-precision-cancer-care-gpp-graphics-(1).tmb-cfthumb_fb.png

305 ms

icam-logo_bilingual_en_outline_horizontal-fullcolour.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

icam-logo_bilingual_en_outline_horizontal-fullcolour.tmb-cfthumb_fb.jpg

271 ms

support-us.jpg

support-us.jpg

286 ms

bullet-square-solid-white.svg

bullet-square-solid-white.svg

285 ms

logo_white.svg

logo_white.svg

300 ms

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51 ms

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55 ms

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72 ms

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56 ms

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56 ms

chevrons-down-white.svg

chevrons-down-white.svg

112 ms

kendo-ui-custom.min.css

kendo-ui-custom.min.css

38 ms

Accessibility Review

gairdner.org accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

gairdner.org 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gairdner.org 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

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 Gairdner.org 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 Gairdner.org 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

gairdner.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gairdner. 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: