Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

albertasource.ca

Albertasource.ca Alberta's Online Encyclopedia

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

889 ms

Page Rendered

160 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Albertasource.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

albertasource.ca performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

albertasource.ca

276 ms

FrontEnd.css

226 ms

analytics.js

17 ms

bkg.jpg

190 ms

hcf_presents.gif

239 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Albertasource.ca, 25% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) belongs to the original domain Albertasource.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

130.4 kB

After Optimization

88.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Albertasource.ca main page is 130.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 65.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 575 B, which is 13% 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 2.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 65.0 kB
  • After minification 64.9 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. Albertasource images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Albertasource.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Albertasource. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

albertasource.ca accessibility score

75

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

albertasource.ca best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

albertasource.ca SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Albertasource.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 Albertasource.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

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