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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

rateco.ca

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

rateco.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rateco.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rateco.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rateco.ca

78 ms

rateco.ca

176 ms

fbevents.js

56 ms

bootstrap.min.css

148 ms

font-awesome.min.css

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Rateco.ca, 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (628 ms) relates to the external source Hn.inspectlet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 492.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rateco.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. 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 872.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 9.9 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 41.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 872.7 kB
  • After minification 857.7 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. Rateco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 113.0 kB

  • Original 224.3 kB
  • After minification 224.3 kB
  • After compression 111.3 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 113.0 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 322.1 kB

  • Original 378.3 kB
  • After minification 361.3 kB
  • After compression 56.1 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. Rateco.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 322.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (30%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rateco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rateco.ca

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78 ms

rateco.ca

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176 ms

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56 ms

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148 ms

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font-awesome.min.css

178 ms

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291 ms

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jquery-1.12.0.min.js

262 ms

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257 ms

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259 ms

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jquery.easing.min.js

256 ms

slick.min.js

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259 ms

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329 ms

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256 ms

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85 ms

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310 ms

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310 ms

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221 ms

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222 ms

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299 ms

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207 ms

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209 ms

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210 ms

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213 ms

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211 ms

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210 ms

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324 ms

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323 ms

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323 ms

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339 ms

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45 ms

Accessibility Review

rateco.ca accessibility score

85

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rateco.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rateco.ca SEO score

89

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 Rateco.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 Rateco.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

rateco.ca

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