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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

torontosun.com

Home | Toronto Sun Home Page | Toronto Sun

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

600 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Torontosun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 600 ms and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

torontosun.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value62.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value58,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value105.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

torontosun.com

600 ms

www.torontosun.com

634 ms

style.css

18 ms

jquery.min.js

43 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.min.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 251 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Torontosun.com, 22% (54 requests) were made to Storage.torontosun.com and 4% (11 requests) were made to D29xw9s9x32j3w.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Assets.pinterest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (42%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Torontosun.com main page is 6.2 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 403.1 kB

  • Original 497.1 kB
  • After minification 369.3 kB
  • After compression 93.9 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 127.8 kB, which is 26% 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 403.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

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 Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 709.0 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 1.7 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 400.4 kB

  • Original 487.2 kB
  • After minification 453.4 kB
  • After compression 86.8 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. Torontosun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 400.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (46%)

Requests Now

238

After Optimization

128

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 238 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Toronto Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

torontosun.com 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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

torontosun.com 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

torontosun.com SEO score

93

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

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 Torontosun.com 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 Torontosun.com 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

torontosun.com

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