Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

insurancebusiness.ca

Canada Insurance News for Professionals | Insurance Business Canada

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

206 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

232 ms

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About Website

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

Canadian insurance news for the insurance industry in Canada. Catch up on breaking news, analysis, trends, and interviews from Canada's insurance leaders.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Insurancebusiness.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 206 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

insurancebusiness.ca performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,290 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

206 ms

css

87 ms

all.css

246 ms

slick.min.css

108 ms

site.min.css

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Insurancebusiness.ca, 9% (12 requests) were made to S.adroll.com and 8% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (910 ms) relates to the external source Cdn-res.keymedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 179.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

690.7 kB

After Optimization

510.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Insurancebusiness.ca main page is 690.7 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. 75% 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 312.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 99.4 kB

  • Original 120.0 kB
  • After minification 97.7 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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 22.3 kB, which is 19% 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 99.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 312.6 kB
  • After minification 297.6 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. Insurance Business images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 144.1 kB
  • After minification 144.1 kB
  • After compression 143.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. Insurancebusiness.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.6 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 77 (64%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Insurance Business. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

insurancebusiness.ca accessibility score

95

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

insurancebusiness.ca best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

insurancebusiness.ca SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Insurancebusiness.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 Insurancebusiness.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 description is not detected on the main page of Insurance Business. 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: