Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

thepulse.ca

The Pulse

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

551 ms

Resources Loaded

649 ms

Page Rendered

234 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepulse.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 551 ms and then it took 883 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepulse.ca performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepulse.ca

551 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

10 ms

foundation.min.css

19 ms

style.css

14 ms

css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Thepulse.ca, 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (551 ms) belongs to the original domain Thepulse.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

267.4 kB

After Optimization

160.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Thepulse.ca main page is 267.4 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 139.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 9.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 139.2 kB
  • After minification 132.5 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 Pulse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 17.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 88.4 kB
  • After minification 78.6 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Thepulse.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Pulse. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

thepulse.ca accessibility score

84

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thepulse.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thepulse.ca SEO score

92

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 Thepulse.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 Thepulse.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 The Pulse. 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: