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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

thoroldtoday.ca

ThoroldToday.ca - Local News Headlines for Thorold Ontario - Thorold News

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

104 ms

Resources Loaded

736 ms

Page Rendered

348 ms

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About Website

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Thorold's local news source. Local news from local journalists, photos, video, sports, weekly flyers, entertainment and more -- all on ThoroldNews.com.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thoroldtoday.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 104 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

thoroldtoday.ca performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,070 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thoroldtoday.ca

104 ms

template

15 ms

js

137 ms

22098.js

249 ms

gpt.js

251 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Thoroldtoday.ca, 26% (9 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 9% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (319 ms) relates to the external source Vmcdn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.7 kB (37%)

Content Size

358.9 kB

After Optimization

226.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thoroldtoday.ca main page is 358.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 175.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 130.5 kB

  • Original 164.2 kB
  • After minification 151.8 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 130.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 17.2 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. Obviously, Thorold Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 62 B

  • Original 175.4 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 175.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (66%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thorold Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.thoroldtoday.ca

www.thoroldtoday.ca

104 ms

template

template

15 ms

js

js

137 ms

22098.js

22098.js

249 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

251 ms

get.js

get.js

81 ms

widgets

widgets

53 ms

template

template

53 ms

8wl80yr4.js

8wl80yr4.js

76 ms

logo_thoroldtoday_white.svg

logo_thoroldtoday_white.svg

110 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

32 ms

user-o-w.svg

user-o-w.svg

200 ms

search.svg

search.svg

202 ms

logo_looklocal2.png;w=200

logo_looklocal2.png;w=200

233 ms

gallery.svg

gallery.svg

233 ms

tho.png;w=200

tho.png;w=200

231 ms

facebook-w.svg

facebook-w.svg

232 ms

x-w.svg

x-w.svg

231 ms

instagram-w.svg

instagram-w.svg

319 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

27 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

28 ms

8wl80yr4.json

8wl80yr4.json

169 ms

10870.jsx

10870.jsx

288 ms

js

js

79 ms

js

js

162 ms

runtime.abcd9a9.js

runtime.abcd9a9.js

294 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

43 ms

22466671215

22466671215

114 ms

tiny-slider.css

tiny-slider.css

48 ms

one.js

one.js

10 ms

css

css

30 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

32 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVc.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1x4gaVc.ttf

32 ms

sync.min.js

sync.min.js

20 ms

ob.js

ob.js

32 ms

Accessibility Review

thoroldtoday.ca accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

thoroldtoday.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thoroldtoday.ca SEO score

96

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 Thoroldtoday.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 Thoroldtoday.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

thoroldtoday.ca

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