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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

saanichnews.com

Welcome to the Saanich News - Saanich News

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

709 ms

Page Rendered

376 ms

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About Website

Welcome to saanichnews.com homepage info - get ready to check Saanich News best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about saanichnews.com

We at the Saanich News are proud to present to you, Saanich News. We are your local community resource for events happening in Saanich BC.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saanichnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saanichnews.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.saanichnews.com

115 ms

template_bpm

167 ms

tag

48 ms

js

72 ms

gpt.js

106 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Saanichnews.com, 57% (17 requests) were made to Bpmcdn.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (279 ms) belongs to the original domain Saanichnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

704.8 kB

After Optimization

513.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Saanichnews.com main page is 704.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 294.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 101.3 kB

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 14.6 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 101.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 290.0 kB
  • After minification 275.4 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. Saanich News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 294.5 kB
  • After minification 294.5 kB
  • After compression 219.2 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 75.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (45%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saanich News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.saanichnews.com

www.saanichnews.com

115 ms

template_bpm

template_bpm

167 ms

tag

tag

48 ms

js

js

72 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

106 ms

widgets

widgets

244 ms

template_bpm

template_bpm

279 ms

bp-fixes.js

bp-fixes.js

47 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

116 ms

SNE.svg

SNE.svg

131 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

191 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

189 ms

play.svg

play.svg

119 ms

user-o-w.svg

user-o-w.svg

122 ms

facebook-w.svg

facebook-w.svg

121 ms

x-w.svg

x-w.svg

121 ms

instagram-w.svg

instagram-w.svg

123 ms

search.svg

search.svg

181 ms

untitled.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

untitled.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

189 ms

240610christmas.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

240610christmas.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

123 ms

sidneybear.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

sidneybear.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

124 ms

24255162_web1_VNE-CFBesquimaltAerial.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

24255162_web1_VNE-CFBesquimaltAerial.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

182 ms

bar.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

bar.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

186 ms

megan-sampson-is-ready-to-huurtle-down-the-luge-course-photo-chrissy-sampson.jpeg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

megan-sampson-is-ready-to-huurtle-down-the-luge-course-photo-chrissy-sampson.jpeg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

181 ms

cookst.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

cookst.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

183 ms

caroline-cameron.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

caroline-cameron.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

184 ms

gallery.svg

gallery.svg

182 ms

join-today.png

join-today.png

185 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

71 ms

datalayer

datalayer

96 ms

Accessibility Review

saanichnews.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

saanichnews.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

saanichnews.com SEO score

97

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 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 Saanichnews.com 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 Saanichnews.com 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

saanichnews.com

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