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Visit giftcards.caWe analyzed Giftcards.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 72 ms and then it took 408 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.
giftcards.ca performance score
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Value3.8 s
26/100
10%
Value13.8 s
0/100
25%
Value9.0 s
14/100
10%
Value1,350 ms
17/100
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Value0.811
4/100
15%
Value18.5 s
3/100
10%
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Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Giftcards.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (85 ms) belongs to the original domain Giftcards.ca.
Page size can be reduced by 20.9 kB (14%)
153.0 kB
132.1 kB
In fact, the total size of Giftcards.ca main page is 153.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 127.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 20.9 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 6.1 kB, which is 24% 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 20.9 kB or 83% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 0 B
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. Gift Cards images are well optimized though.
Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (73%)
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The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gift Cards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.
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personal.htm
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giftcards.ca.gif
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top_bg.gif
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top_home.gif
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top_end_menu_left.gif
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top_menu_merchant.gif
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giftcards.ca accessibility score
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
Buttons do not have an accessible name
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Form elements do not have associated labels
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
Impact
Issue
[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
giftcards.ca best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
Impact
Issue
Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
Serves images with low resolution
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools
giftcards.ca SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
N/A
WINDOWS-1252
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Giftcards.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 Giftcards.ca main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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.
giftcards.ca
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gift Cards. 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: