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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

golfmax.ca

Golfmax - Canada's Premier Golf Website

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

177 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Golfmax content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about golfmax.ca

Golfmax.ca is a full featured Canadian golf website. Golfers can login to the Golfer Clubhouse and enter scores, analyze their game trends, rank themselves against other golfers, take part in a weekly...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfmax.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfmax.ca performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golfmax.ca

148 ms

golfmax.ca

135 ms

jquery-1.4.1.js

24 ms

golfmaxAjax.js

302 ms

styles2008.css

305 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Golfmax.ca, 59% (24 requests) were made to Golfmax.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) belongs to the original domain Golfmax.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.9 kB (17%)

Content Size

630.9 kB

After Optimization

524.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Golfmax.ca main page is 630.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 512.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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 22.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 28.0 kB

  • Original 512.5 kB
  • After minification 484.5 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. Golfmax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 63.2 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 28.3 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 35.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 25.9 kB
  • After minification 20.8 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Golfmax.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (27%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golfmax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

golfmax.ca

golfmax.ca

148 ms

golfmax.ca

golfmax.ca

135 ms

jquery-1.4.1.js

jquery-1.4.1.js

24 ms

golfmaxAjax.js

golfmaxAjax.js

302 ms

styles2008.css

styles2008.css

305 ms

main.css

main.css

328 ms

jquery.imgareaselect.min.js

jquery.imgareaselect.min.js

318 ms

jquery.ocupload-packed.js

jquery.ocupload-packed.js

318 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

337 ms

common.js

common.js

622 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

337 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

40 ms

re_.js

re_.js

236 ms

branding.css

branding.css

13 ms

branding.css

branding.css

25 ms

brown-bg.gif

brown-bg.gif

29 ms

info-scorekeeping.jpg

info-scorekeeping.jpg

29 ms

info-leagues.jpg

info-leagues.jpg

76 ms

info-fantasy.jpg

info-fantasy.jpg

77 ms

info-where2play.jpg

info-where2play.jpg

72 ms

info-tradeshow.jpg

info-tradeshow.jpg

74 ms

info-golfmaxonline.jpg

info-golfmaxonline.jpg

75 ms

can-flag.gif

can-flag.gif

25 ms

us-flag.gif

us-flag.gif

72 ms

icon-facebook.png

icon-facebook.png

73 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

84 ms

icon-youtube.png

icon-youtube.png

88 ms

icon-blog.png

icon-blog.png

121 ms

prelogin-header.png

prelogin-header.png

103 ms

homepagesplash1.jpg

homepagesplash1.jpg

60 ms

homepagesplash2.jpg

homepagesplash2.jpg

102 ms

right-login.jpg

right-login.jpg

55 ms

login-button.gif

login-button.gif

64 ms

join-button.gif

join-button.gif

67 ms

homepage-gradient.jpg

homepage-gradient.jpg

99 ms

where2play-box.jpg

where2play-box.jpg

98 ms

tradeshow-box.jpg

tradeshow-box.jpg

101 ms

golfmaxonline-box.jpg

golfmaxonline-box.jpg

107 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

golfmax.ca accessibility score

61

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

golfmax.ca best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

golfmax.ca SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Golfmax.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 Golfmax.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

golfmax.ca

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