Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

groups.townpost.ca

Classified Ads · Town Post Canada

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

556 ms

groups.townpost.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to groups.townpost.ca homepage info - get ready to check Groups Town Post best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about groups.townpost.ca

Town Post Canada offers FREE classifieds to buy and sell items locally. Ads are published on TownPost, Facebook, and E-mail Subscribers in your area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Groups.townpost.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

groups.townpost.ca performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.9 s

83/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

groups.townpost.ca

1463 ms

css_pbm0lsQQJ7A7WCCIMgxLho6mI_kBNgznNUWmTWcnfoE.css

187 ms

css_lgywVhx268TdbOVvBG0DTPJetLdjYiwatMzascazJcw.css

188 ms

css_MnXiytJtb186Ydycnpwpw34cuUsHaKc80ey5LiQXhSY.css

188 ms

css_fHR_TAvRz2fvuObdxFFOD-UdtM_2fAqH-TWS90LfOe0.css

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Groups.townpost.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to D31qbv1cthcecs.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Groups.townpost.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.4 kB (55%)

Content Size

364.9 kB

After Optimization

162.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Groups.townpost.ca main page is 364.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 156.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. 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 48.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 90.8 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. Obviously, Groups Town Post needs image optimization as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 104.2 kB

  • Original 156.5 kB
  • After minification 142.6 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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 104.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Groups.townpost.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (19%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Groups Town Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

groups.townpost.ca accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

groups.townpost.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

groups.townpost.ca SEO score

100

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

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 Groups.townpost.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 Groups.townpost.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 Groups Town Post. 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: