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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

torontostar.ca

Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Visit torontostar.ca now to see the best up-to-date Toronto Star content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about torontostar.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Torontostar.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

torontostar.ca performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

torontostar.ca

67 ms

www.thestar.com

189 ms

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128 ms

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144 ms

oovvuu.css

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Torontostar.ca, 55% (34 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Thestar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (377 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.5 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Torontostar.ca main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 852.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 509.8 kB

  • Original 579.0 kB
  • After minification 484.4 kB
  • After compression 69.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 94.6 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 509.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 327.0 kB
  • After minification 327.0 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. Toronto Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 100.4 kB

  • Original 852.8 kB
  • After minification 852.7 kB
  • After compression 752.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 100.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Torontostar.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.2 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (78%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Toronto Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

torontostar.ca

torontostar.ca

67 ms

www.thestar.com

www.thestar.com

189 ms

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128 ms

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144 ms

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134 ms

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137 ms

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136 ms

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97 ms

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133 ms

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119 ms

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139 ms

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178 ms

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178 ms

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178 ms

polyfill.min.js

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377 ms

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112 ms

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139 ms

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179 ms

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178 ms

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186 ms

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115 ms

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106 ms

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180 ms

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113 ms

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181 ms

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100 ms

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33 ms

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75 ms

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Accessibility Review

torontostar.ca accessibility score

83

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

torontostar.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

torontostar.ca SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Torontostar.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 Torontostar.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

torontostar.ca

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