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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

museums.ca

CMA | Canadian Museums Association

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Museums.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 1.2 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

museums.ca performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

museums.ca

299 ms

scripts.js;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

148 ms

styles.css;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

92 ms

bootstrap.js

107 ms

navigation.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Museums.ca, 19% (7 requests) were made to Museums.in1touch.org and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (418 ms) relates to the external source Museums.in1touch.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 376.8 kB (42%)

Content Size

888.4 kB

After Optimization

511.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Museums.ca main page is 888.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 469.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 113.9 kB
  • After minification 78.5 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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 35.4 kB, which is 31% 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 99.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 469.1 kB
  • After minification 436.7 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. Museums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 82.5 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 54.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 190.4 kB

  • Original 223.0 kB
  • After minification 182.8 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Museums.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Museums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

museums.ca

museums.ca

299 ms

scripts.js;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

scripts.js;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

148 ms

styles.css;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

styles.css;jsessionid=7B24DE4DB4A4CF99BA004D6868011D6B

92 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

107 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

58 ms

tables.js

tables.js

57 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

81 ms

bootstrap-theme.css

bootstrap-theme.css

84 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

86 ms

in1touch.css

in1touch.css

107 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

111 ms

style_boot.css

style_boot.css

115 ms

page_404

page_404

173 ms

companyRosterView.html

companyRosterView.html

418 ms

search_btn.png

search_btn.png

30 ms

paper_fibers.png

paper_fibers.png

55 ms

sm_twitter.png

sm_twitter.png

32 ms

sm_flicker.png

sm_flicker.png

31 ms

sm_facebook.png

sm_facebook.png

31 ms

sm_blogger.png

sm_blogger.png

57 ms

sm_youtube.png

sm_youtube.png

58 ms

cma_logo.png

cma_logo.png

84 ms

banner_insurance_2015.jpg

banner_insurance_2015.jpg

96 ms

btn_join.png

btn_join.png

72 ms

spinner.gif

spinner.gif

79 ms

banner_shop.png

banner_shop.png

92 ms

CMA_Conference_Rotating_2016.jpg

CMA_Conference_Rotating_2016.jpg

163 ms

NCS_Benchmarking_C2016.jpg

NCS_Benchmarking_C2016.jpg

132 ms

banner_CMA_hill_day.jpg

banner_CMA_hill_day.jpg

125 ms

muse_rotating_banners.jpg

muse_rotating_banners.jpg

158 ms

banner_Total_Transport.png

banner_Total_Transport.png

112 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

95 ms

events.js

events.js

83 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

130 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Accessibility Review

museums.ca accessibility score

66

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

museums.ca 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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

museums.ca SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

museums.ca

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