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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thegate.ca

The GATE | Entertainment, Travel & Lifestyle Magazine

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

70 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

thegate.ca screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The GATE content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thegate.ca

The GATE is Canada's online entertainment, travel & lifestyle magazine with stories on film, TV, travel, style, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegate.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 70 ms and then it took 4.3 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

thegate.ca performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thegate.ca

70 ms

www.thegate.ca

158 ms

e5f6a286ccfeba767a24acaea85ce4bf.css

35 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

88 ms

js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Thegate.ca, 37% (19 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegate.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 372.1 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

726.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegate.ca main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 445.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 370.3 kB

  • Original 445.2 kB
  • After minification 444.8 kB
  • After compression 74.9 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 370.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 827 B

  • Original 405.7 kB
  • After minification 404.8 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. The GATE images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 936 B

  • Original 225.3 kB
  • After minification 225.3 kB
  • After compression 224.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Thegate.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The GATE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thegate.ca

thegate.ca

70 ms

www.thegate.ca

www.thegate.ca

158 ms

e5f6a286ccfeba767a24acaea85ce4bf.css

e5f6a286ccfeba767a24acaea85ce4bf.css

35 ms

sbi-scripts.min.js

sbi-scripts.min.js

88 ms

js

js

117 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

200 ms

pub-0987745689798735

pub-0987745689798735

199 ms

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Doctor-Who-Ncuti-Millie.jpg

183 ms

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e-202419.js

144 ms

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ajax-filter-latest.js

143 ms

widgets-ajax.js

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63 ms

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webpack-pro.runtime.min.js

143 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

153 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

154 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

142 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

141 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

220 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

151 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

164 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

163 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

152 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

224 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

157 ms

elements-handlers.min.js

elements-handlers.min.js

224 ms

sbi-sprite.png

sbi-sprite.png

2812 ms

cropped-The-Gate-Logo-RGB.png

cropped-The-Gate-Logo-RGB.png

220 ms

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IPW24-WAP-1823-scaled.jpg

158 ms

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Kingdom-of-the-Planet-of-the-Apes-Featured.jpg

162 ms

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Kingdom-of-the-Planet-of-the-Apes-Featured.jpg

161 ms

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Alex-Neustaedter2455-Edit-1.jpg

224 ms

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233 ms

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250 ms

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227 ms

Adam-Stewart-Sandals.jpg

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233 ms

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309 ms

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405 ms

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420 ms

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342 ms

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554 ms

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440 ms

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341 ms

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397 ms

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383 ms

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447 ms

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The-Gate-G-Logo-White.png

72 ms

The-Gate-G-Logo-Social.png

The-Gate-G-Logo-Social.png

74 ms

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fa-brands-400.woff

92 ms

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penciicon.ttf

24 ms

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25 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

12 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

58 ms

Accessibility Review

thegate.ca accessibility score

94

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.

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

thegate.ca best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thegate.ca SEO score

91

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

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 Thegate.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 Thegate.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

thegate.ca

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