Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

glasscanadamag.com

Glass Canada - leading source of information for the Canadian glass and metal industry

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

200 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

glasscanadamag.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glasscanadamag.com page load time and found that the first response time was 200 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glasscanadamag.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.glasscanadamag.com

200 ms

wpp.min.js

41 ms

style.min.css

102 ms

dashicons.min.css

113 ms

wpp.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Glasscanadamag.com, 19% (18 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) relates to the external source Annexbusinessmedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 838.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Glasscanadamag.com main page is 2.8 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. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 194.9 kB

  • Original 258.7 kB
  • After minification 247.2 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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 194.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Glass Canada Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 204.6 kB

  • Original 638.3 kB
  • After minification 611.6 kB
  • After compression 433.7 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 204.6 kB or 32% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 391.2 kB

  • Original 495.6 kB
  • After minification 455.8 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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. Glasscanadamag.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 391.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (44%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

49

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glass Canada Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glasscanadamag.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

glasscanadamag.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

glasscanadamag.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 Glasscanadamag.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 Glasscanadamag.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

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