Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

businessdirect.ca

Just another WordPress site – Just another WordPress site

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Businessdirect.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

businessdirect.ca performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

businessdirect.ca

39 ms

www.businessdirect.ca

1962 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

style.css

520 ms

twentytwenty.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Businessdirect.ca, 43% (6 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Businessdirect.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.2 kB (37%)

Content Size

134.7 kB

After Optimization

84.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Businessdirect.ca main page is 134.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 72.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 45.6 kB or 63% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 3.6 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 972 B

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 39.7 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. Businessdirect.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (83%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Businessdirect. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

businessdirect.ca accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

businessdirect.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

businessdirect.ca SEO score

83

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

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 Businessdirect.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 Businessdirect.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 Businessdirect. 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: