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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

gocashback.ca

GoCashBack: Top Cashback Site with Hot Deals and Exclusives

Page Load Speed

21.9 sec in total

First Response

178 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

913 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gocashback.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 178 ms and then it took 21.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

gocashback.ca performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gocashback.ca

178 ms

gocashback.ca

317 ms

www.gocashback.ca

766 ms

appleid.auth.js

25 ms

gdpr-modal.min.js

623 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Gocashback.ca, 63% (106 requests) were made to Static.gcb-static.com and 22% (37 requests) were made to Img.gcb-static.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Img.gcb-static.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 484.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gocashback.ca main page is 2.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 157.9 kB

  • Original 213.7 kB
  • After minification 212.0 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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 157.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 324.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Go Cash Back needs image optimization as it can save up to 324.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 399.4 kB
  • After minification 399.4 kB
  • After compression 397.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (44%)

Requests Now

164

After Optimization

92

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 164 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Go Cash Back. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gocashback.ca accessibility score

50

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

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

gocashback.ca best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

gocashback.ca SEO score

92

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 Gocashback.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 Gocashback.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 Go Cash Back. 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: