Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

googlemaps.ca

Google Maps

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

22 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

161 ms

googlemaps.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to googlemaps.ca homepage info - get ready to check Google Maps best content right away, or after learning these important things about googlemaps.ca

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Googlemaps.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 22 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

googlemaps.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

googlemaps.ca

22 ms

maps.google.ca

32 ms

maps

27 ms

maps

155 ms

rs=ACT90oGpj0KHyUrLSes46D-PvLBiH0P4jA

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Googlemaps.ca, 63% (74 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 33% (39 requests) were made to Google.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (177 ms) relates to the external source Google.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

889.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Googlemaps.ca main page is 1.3 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. 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. HTML takes 522.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 408.0 kB

  • Original 522.1 kB
  • After minification 522.1 kB
  • After compression 114.1 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 408.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 311.6 kB
  • After minification 301.9 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. Google Maps images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 473.8 kB
  • After minification 473.8 kB
  • After compression 473.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Google Maps. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

googlemaps.ca accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

googlemaps.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

googlemaps.ca SEO score

100

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

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 Googlemaps.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 Googlemaps.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

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