Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

classifieds.calgaryherald.com

Calgary Herald | Classifieds

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

485 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classifieds.calgaryherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classifieds.calgaryherald.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.744

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classifieds.calgaryherald.com

2481 ms

global.css

64 ms

include.aspx

183 ms

gpt.js

67 ms

burt.js

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Classifieds.calgaryherald.com, 21% (21 requests) were made to D2w746l7r32cn5.cloudfront.net and 18% (18 requests) were made to D6wp3qaq1pxey.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Classifieds.calgaryherald.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 980.8 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

734.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Classifieds.calgaryherald.com main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 737.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 278.4 kB

  • Original 379.1 kB
  • After minification 374.8 kB
  • After compression 100.7 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. 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 278.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 383.6 kB
  • After minification 367.1 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. Classifieds Calgary Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 500.5 kB

  • Original 737.7 kB
  • After minification 718.4 kB
  • After compression 237.2 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 500.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 185.4 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 167.3 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Classifieds.calgaryherald.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 185.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (46%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classifieds Calgary Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

classifieds.calgaryherald.com accessibility score

94

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Best Practices

classifieds.calgaryherald.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

classifieds.calgaryherald.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Classifieds.calgaryherald.com 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 Classifieds.calgaryherald.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Classifieds Calgary Herald. 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: