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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

waterloochronicle.ca

Latest News Stories | Waterloo Chronicle

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

623 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterloochronicle.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 81 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

waterloochronicle.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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81 ms

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215 ms

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Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Waterloochronicle.ca, 54% (49 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn-p.cityspark.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (614 ms) relates to the external source Torstar.gscontxt.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 570.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterloochronicle.ca main page is 3.0 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 433.6 kB
  • After minification 373.0 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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 60.6 kB, which is 14% 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 381.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 152.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Waterloo Chronicle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 873.0 kB
  • After minification 873.0 kB
  • After compression 848.1 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 60.0 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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. Waterloochronicle.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (55%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterloo Chronicle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

waterloochronicle.ca accessibility score

82

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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

waterloochronicle.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waterloochronicle.ca SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Waterloochronicle.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 Waterloochronicle.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

waterloochronicle.ca

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