Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

petsmartcharities.ca

More than a Pet Charity: Connecting People & Pets | PetSmart Charities

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

889 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

petsmartcharities.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pet Smart Charities content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about petsmartcharities.ca

PetSmart Charities is a nonprofit organization supporting pets and those who love them. Over 90 cents of every dollar supports change-making organizations in communities near you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Petsmartcharities.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

petsmartcharities.ca performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

petsmartcharities.ca

30 ms

petsmartcharities.ca

35 ms

gtm.js

88 ms

css_Yb2PPWaez4yTbrUlsz1M2srJ3mM3cYQao34_croBUoQ.css

234 ms

css_inaimsLuRGZov1isf3jR9PzMHObKnpuCXvwCc-Ghowo.css

249 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Petsmartcharities.ca, 8% (4 requests) were made to Pet-uploads.adoptapet.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (724 ms) belongs to the original domain Petsmartcharities.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Petsmartcharities.ca main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 710.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 94.3 kB

  • Original 126.2 kB
  • After minification 111.3 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 14.9 kB, which is 12% 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 94.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 710.4 kB
  • After minification 612.5 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. Obviously, Pet Smart Charities needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 206.4 kB

  • Original 678.4 kB
  • After minification 678.4 kB
  • After compression 472.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 206.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 325 B
  • After minification 325 B
  • After compression 256 B

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. Petsmartcharities.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 69 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (22%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pet Smart Charities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

petsmartcharities.ca accessibility score

82

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

petsmartcharities.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

petsmartcharities.ca SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Petsmartcharities.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 Petsmartcharities.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 Pet Smart Charities. 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: