Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

recycle-smart.ca

RTS Canada | Commercial Waste Disposal Services and Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Welcome to recycle-smart.ca homepage info - get ready to check Recycle Smart best content right away, or after learning these important things about recycle-smart.ca

RTS helps businesses and communities manage waste more responsibly using technlogy to streamline collection routes and stay in contact with pickup sites.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Recycle-smart.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 2.7 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

recycle-smart.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.218

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

recycle-smart.ca

25 ms

526 ms

font-awesome.min.css

60 ms

style.min.css

109 ms

style-index.css

88 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 Recycle-smart.ca, 80% (79 requests) were made to Rts.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Api.recollect.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) relates to the external source Rts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 944.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

7.9 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Recycle-smart.ca main page is 7.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 319.0 kB

  • Original 374.7 kB
  • After minification 372.7 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 319.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 617.9 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Recycle Smart images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 154.6 kB
  • After minification 154.6 kB
  • After compression 150.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 105.6 kB
  • After compression 102.3 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. Recycle-smart.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (51%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Recycle Smart. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

recycle-smart.ca accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

recycle-smart.ca best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

recycle-smart.ca SEO score

81

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Recycle-smart.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Recycle-smart.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 data is detected on the main page of Recycle Smart. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: