Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

history.ca

HISTORY Canada | History - Videos, TV Schedule & Watch Full Episodes

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

73 ms

Resources Loaded

951 ms

Page Rendered

309 ms

history.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to history.ca homepage info - get ready to check HISTORY best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about history.ca

HISTORY Canada - access show times and episode guides; watch Vikings and Forged in Fire online for free in Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed History.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 73 ms and then it took 1.3 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

history.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

history.ca

73 ms

www.history.ca

314 ms

mvh6eev.js

50 ms

global.css

45 ms

button.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original History.ca, 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.smdg.ca and 16% (10 requests) were made to Media.history.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (314 ms) belongs to the original domain History.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 569.9 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of History.ca main page is 1.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 kB, which is 18% 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 32.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. HISTORY images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 422.2 kB

  • Original 581.1 kB
  • After minification 509.6 kB
  • After compression 158.9 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 422.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 96.1 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. History.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (47%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HISTORY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

history.ca accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

history.ca best practices score

69

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

history.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 History.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 History.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 HISTORY. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: