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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

topstory.ca

Public relations and social marketing - Toronto, Canada | topstory.ca

Page Load Speed

480 ms in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

355 ms

Page Rendered

87 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Topstory.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 442 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

topstory.ca performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

topstory.ca

38 ms

topstory.ca

89 ms

js

83 ms

styles.css

18 ms

matchcolumnheight.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Topstory.ca, 23% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (178 ms) belongs to the original domain Topstory.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.2 kB (14%)

Content Size

63.5 kB

After Optimization

54.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Topstory.ca main page is 63.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 6.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 34.9 kB
  • After minification 32.2 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. Topstory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 61 B

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 423 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Topstory.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 423 B or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Topstory. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

topstory.ca

topstory.ca

38 ms

topstory.ca

topstory.ca

89 ms

js

js

83 ms

styles.css

styles.css

18 ms

matchcolumnheight.js

matchcolumnheight.js

35 ms

ga.js

ga.js

70 ms

APR_English_Blk_tag_sm.jpg

APR_English_Blk_tag_sm.jpg

19 ms

al_headshot_cp.jpg

al_headshot_cp.jpg

178 ms

marginote.gif

marginote.gif

69 ms

topstory_wordmark.png

topstory_wordmark.png

177 ms

bar-top.gif

bar-top.gif

176 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

Accessibility Review

topstory.ca accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

topstory.ca best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

topstory.ca SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Topstory.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 Topstory.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

topstory.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Topstory. 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: