Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myfriend.shawdirect.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 4.5 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

myfriend.shawdirect.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

326 ms

utag.sync.js

688 ms

css

686 ms

icon-fonts.css

513 ms

bootstrap.min.css

733 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Myfriend.shawdirect.ca, 17% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 15% (14 requests) were made to Assets.aws.shawdirect.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Shawdirect.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (34%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Myfriend.shawdirect.ca main page is 7.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 53.5 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 15.6 kB, which is 23% 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 56.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Obviously, Myfriend Shaw Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.4 MB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 81.9 kB

  • Original 527.9 kB
  • After minification 527.7 kB
  • After compression 445.9 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 81.9 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (65%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Myfriend Shaw Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

myfriend.shawdirect.ca accessibility score

79

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

myfriend.shawdirect.ca best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

myfriend.shawdirect.ca SEO score

85

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

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

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 Myfriend.shawdirect.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 Myfriend.shawdirect.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 Myfriend Shaw Direct. 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: