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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

parentcentral.ca

Lifestyle News - Food, Home, Travel | The Star

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parentcentral.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parentcentral.ca performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,040 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parentcentral.ca

36 ms

parent.html

113 ms

117 ms

bootstrap.min.87df60d54091cf1e8f8173c2e568260c.css

162 ms

layout.5bce7eb56c23d79d6ab89ab093c281ea.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Parentcentral.ca, 36% (27 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Thestar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 520.3 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

850.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Parentcentral.ca main page is 1.4 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. 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. Javascripts take 762.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 483.4 kB

  • Original 542.4 kB
  • After minification 452.2 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 90.2 kB, which is 17% 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 483.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.7 kB
  • After minification 8.7 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. Parentcentral images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 762.3 kB
  • After minification 762.1 kB
  • After compression 736.5 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Parentcentral.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.1 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (83%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parentcentral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

parentcentral.ca

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113 ms

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Accessibility Review

parentcentral.ca accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

parentcentral.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parentcentral.ca SEO score

90

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Parentcentral.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 Parentcentral.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

parentcentral.ca

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