Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Radio9.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 2.6 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

radio9.ca performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

radio9.ca

175 ms

919sport.ca

62 ms

css

34 ms

css

46 ms

css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Radio9.ca, 44% (44 requests) were made to 919sport.ca and 18% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (379 ms) relates to the external source 919sport.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 659.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

7.2 MB

After Optimization

6.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Radio9.ca main page is 7.2 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. 85% 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 6.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 100.7 kB

  • Original 112.9 kB
  • After minification 80.8 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 32.1 kB, which is 28% 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 100.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 161.9 kB

  • Original 6.6 MB
  • After minification 6.4 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. Radio 9 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 126.0 kB

  • Original 197.7 kB
  • After minification 195.4 kB
  • After compression 71.7 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 126.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 270.4 kB

  • Original 324.9 kB
  • After minification 323.5 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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. Radio9.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 270.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (32%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Radio 9. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

radio9.ca accessibility score

86

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.

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

Best Practices

radio9.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

radio9.ca SEO score

92

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Radio9.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed French language. Our system also found out that Radio9.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 Radio 9. 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: