Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

therex.ca

The Rex

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

227 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

368 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Therex.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 227 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

therex.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,770 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

therex.ca

227 ms

css

60 ms

style.css

27 ms

jquery.tweet.css

44 ms

jquery.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Therex.ca, 29% (21 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Therex.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

946.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Therex.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 900.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 16.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 900.4 kB
  • After minification 872.2 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 Rex images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 66.7 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 11.5 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 68.3 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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. Therex.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (27%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Rex. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

therex.ca accessibility score

93

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

therex.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

therex.ca SEO score

84

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Therex.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Therex.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 Rex. 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: