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Visit theprovince.comWe analyzed Theprovince.com page load time and found that the first response time was 109 ms and then it took 9.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.
theprovince.com performance score
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weighting
Value4.3 s
18/100
10%
Value27.4 s
0/100
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Value13.6 s
2/100
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Value6,100 ms
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Value0.015
100/100
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Value32.0 s
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Our browser made a total of 293 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Theprovince.com, 5% (14 requests) were made to App.canada.com and 4% (12 requests) were made to Postmediaprovince.files.wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7 sec) belongs to the original domain Theprovince.com.
Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (53%)
2.9 MB
1.4 MB
In fact, the total size of Theprovince.com main page is 2.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 295.1 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 48.0 kB, 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 295.1 kB or 82% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 25.6 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. The Province images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 972.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 972.4 kB or 67% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 253.8 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. Theprovince.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 253.8 kB or 78% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 142 (55%)
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The browser has sent 259 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Province. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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theprovince.com accessibility score
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
Buttons do not have an accessible name
theprovince.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
theprovince.com SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
Links are not crawlable
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
Document uses legible font sizes
EN
N/A
ISO-8859-1
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theprovince.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 Theprovince.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.
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theprovince.com
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Province. 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: