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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

bradfordtoday.ca

Bradford News - Local News for Bradford - West Gwillimbury - Bradford News

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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About Website

Visit bradfordtoday.ca now to see the best up-to-date Bradford Today content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bradfordtoday.ca

BradfordToday includes local news from local journalists along with photos, video, sports, events, classifieds, weekly flyers, entertainment -- updated regularly - all on BradfordToday.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bradfordtoday.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bradfordtoday.ca performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bradfordtoday.ca

251 ms

template

55 ms

head

117 ms

analytics.js

182 ms

gpt.js

600 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Bradfordtoday.ca, 39% (20 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (600 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 138.1 kB (49%)

Content Size

282.1 kB

After Optimization

144.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bradfordtoday.ca main page is 282.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 125.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 104.5 kB

  • Original 125.4 kB
  • After minification 111.5 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.9 kB, which is 11% 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 104.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 93.1 kB
  • After minification 87.4 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. Bradford Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 63.6 kB
  • After minification 63.6 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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 27.8 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (44%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bradford Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bradfordtoday.ca

www.bradfordtoday.ca

251 ms

template

template

55 ms

head

head

117 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

182 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

600 ms

template

template

350 ms

p7j6drpw.js

p7j6drpw.js

471 ms

flipptag.js

flipptag.js

470 ms

logo_bradfordtoday_yellow_233x40.svg

logo_bradfordtoday_yellow_233x40.svg

483 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

329 ms

user-o-w.svg

user-o-w.svg

421 ms

search.svg

search.svg

474 ms

2022_municipalelection_2_300x120.jpg;w=960

2022_municipalelection_2_300x120.jpg;w=960

473 ms

picture-o.svg

picture-o.svg

475 ms

logo_bradfordtoday_plus_white.svg

logo_bradfordtoday_plus_white.svg

489 ms

logo_daily2022_bra.png;w=200

logo_daily2022_bra.png;w=200

505 ms

facebook-w.svg

facebook-w.svg

503 ms

twitter-w.svg

twitter-w.svg

516 ms

collect

collect

176 ms

collect

collect

577 ms

collect

collect

580 ms

collect

collect

249 ms

opensans-regular.woff

opensans-regular.woff

186 ms

opensans-bold.woff

opensans-bold.woff

185 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

357 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

279 ms

counts

counts

215 ms

weatherwidget

weatherwidget

211 ms

feature

feature

109 ms

poll

poll

128 ms

564282

564282

178 ms

20221005-newmarket-halloween-trail-jq.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

20221005-newmarket-halloween-trail-jq.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

207 ms

adobestock_237197296.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

adobestock_237197296.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

210 ms

adobestock_413854194.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

adobestock_413854194.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

210 ms

adobestock_133178564.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

adobestock_133178564.jpeg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

215 ms

lookout-fog-village-media-request.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

lookout-fog-village-media-request.jpg;w=300;h=200;mode=crop

215 ms

013ad3e4-c339-443b-94bc-aa3cef69d429.JPG;w=120

013ad3e4-c339-443b-94bc-aa3cef69d429.JPG;w=120

265 ms

adobestock_320270033_2000x1333.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

adobestock_320270033_2000x1333.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

262 ms

wote.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

wote.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

264 ms

adobestock_294153593_2000x1333.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

adobestock_294153593_2000x1333.jpg;w=100;h=67;mode=crop

264 ms

p7j6drpw.json

p7j6drpw.json

92 ms

runtime.a05a605.js

runtime.a05a605.js

520 ms

pubads_impl_2022100301.js

pubads_impl_2022100301.js

108 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

263 ms

30.gif

30.gif

224 ms

comments.svg

comments.svg

216 ms

565271460721663

565271460721663

175 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

201 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

206 ms

integrator.js

integrator.js

218 ms

container.html

container.html

100 ms

Accessibility Review

bradfordtoday.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

bradfordtoday.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bradfordtoday.ca SEO score

89

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bradfordtoday.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Bradfordtoday.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

bradfordtoday.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bradford Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: