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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

wildresearch.ca

WildResearch: Conserving Nature Through Science and Outreach

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

549 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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About Website

Visit wildresearch.ca now to see the best up-to-date Wild Research content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wildresearch.ca

WildResearch’s mission is to build, train, and educate a community that contributes to conservation science.

Visit wildresearch.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Wildresearch.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 549 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wildresearch.ca performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wildresearch.ca

549 ms

css

19 ms

style.css

392 ms

style.min.css

422 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

420 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Wildresearch.ca, 11% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (549 ms) belongs to the original domain Wildresearch.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 356.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wildresearch.ca main page is 1.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 78.3 kB

  • Original 93.3 kB
  • After minification 92.3 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. 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 78.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 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. Wild Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 170.1 kB

  • Original 274.2 kB
  • After minification 271.7 kB
  • After compression 104.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 170.1 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 113.2 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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. Wildresearch.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (36%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wild Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wildresearch.ca

wildresearch.ca

549 ms

css

css

19 ms

style.css

style.css

392 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

422 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

420 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

479 ms

application.js

application.js

333 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

275 ms

public.css

public.css

362 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

475 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

420 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

468 ms

jQuery.easing.min.js

jQuery.easing.min.js

467 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

110 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

95 ms

header--logo.png

header--logo.png

95 ms

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238 ms

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282 ms

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215 ms

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303 ms

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239 ms

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301 ms

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310 ms

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2021SMMP_Week4_-YEWA-portrait_PC-BrendanToews-612x612.jpg

397 ms

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BCMMP-4-612x612.jpg

309 ms

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141 ms

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519 ms

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518 ms

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203 ms

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202 ms

footer.png

footer.png

354 ms

footer--sociallink.png

footer--sociallink.png

389 ms

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16 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

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40 ms

Accessibility Review

wildresearch.ca accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

wildresearch.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

wildresearch.ca SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Wildresearch.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 Wildresearch.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

wildresearch.ca

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