Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

buildingtrades.ca

Canada's Building Trades Unions

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

455 ms

buildingtrades.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to buildingtrades.ca homepage info - get ready to check Building Trades best content right away, or after learning these important things about buildingtrades.ca

Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) are the national voice of over half a million Canadian skilled trades workers—members of 14 international unions who work in more than 60 different trades and oc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildingtrades.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildingtrades.ca performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildingtrades.ca

1965 ms

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146 ms

css_3_aktopErWyXBEdRGJlf4LHuUCub9x_bXesVzyGFzmE.css

148 ms

css_x5RL_Ni6I1pMXqkUKVOSqB2HAKTB1lDv6sg-Cavii8I.css

152 ms

css_a52nJIBm9PZvHIc1ylkbDBS-RRI1ZY7UPZiy8YPy-XE.css

218 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Buildingtrades.ca, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildingtrades.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 674.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Buildingtrades.ca main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 946.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 41.4 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 32.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 946.4 kB
  • After minification 926.9 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. Building Trades images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 335.7 kB

  • Original 489.1 kB
  • After minification 441.4 kB
  • After compression 153.4 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 335.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 286.5 kB

  • Original 354.0 kB
  • After minification 351.6 kB
  • After compression 67.5 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. Buildingtrades.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 286.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (36%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Building Trades. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

buildingtrades.ca accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

buildingtrades.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

buildingtrades.ca SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Buildingtrades.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 Buildingtrades.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 data is detected on the main page of Building Trades. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: