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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

cambridgenow.ca

Cambridge Ontario Area Guide Features Real Estate Restaurants Boating Jobs Classifieds - Cambridge Now Cambridge ON

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

380 ms

Resources Loaded

925 ms

Page Rendered

466 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cambridgenow.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 380 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Cambridgenow.ca rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

cambridgenow.ca performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cambridgenow.ca

380 ms

styles_globalheader_new.css

12 ms

stylescss_new.css

17 ms

sidebar_styles.css

13 ms

styles_footer.css

12 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Cambridgenow.ca, 9% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Partner.googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) belongs to the original domain Cambridgenow.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 317.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cambridgenow.ca main page is 1.4 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 107.6 kB

  • Original 127.6 kB
  • After minification 105.1 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 22.5 kB, which is 18% 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 107.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 964.1 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. Cambridge Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 109.2 kB

  • Original 180.6 kB
  • After minification 175.4 kB
  • After compression 71.3 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 109.2 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 43.4 kB
  • After minification 36.6 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Cambridgenow.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (51%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cambridge Now. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cambridgenow.ca

cambridgenow.ca

380 ms

styles_globalheader_new.css

styles_globalheader_new.css

12 ms

stylescss_new.css

stylescss_new.css

17 ms

sidebar_styles.css

sidebar_styles.css

13 ms

styles_footer.css

styles_footer.css

12 ms

img_functions_static.js

img_functions_static.js

10 ms

__utm.js

__utm.js

25 ms

google_service.js

google_service.js

18 ms

globalstyles.css

globalstyles.css

14 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

54 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.datepicker.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.16.datepicker.min.js

38 ms

sidjs-0.1.partialmin.js

sidjs-0.1.partialmin.js

18 ms

globalheader.js

globalheader.js

12 ms

google_ads.js

google_ads.js

18 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

6 ms

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print.css

6 ms

ga.js

ga.js

7 ms

site_bg.jpg

site_bg.jpg

85 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

86 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

headerbgblue.jpg

headerbgblue.jpg

58 ms

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headerleft_new.jpg

61 ms

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headercenter.jpg

60 ms

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62 ms

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57 ms

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60 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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106 ms

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99 ms

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95 ms

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97 ms

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98 ms

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184 ms

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193 ms

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10 ms

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26 ms

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fastbutton

96 ms

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174 ms

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177 ms

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164 ms

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172 ms

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175 ms

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busdirsearch_top.jpg

154 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

38 ms

busdirsearch_bg.jpg

busdirsearch_bg.jpg

139 ms

busdirsearch_bottom.jpg

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142 ms

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163 ms

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161 ms

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buschannel_bottom.jpg

144 ms

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sidebar_header_center.jpg

187 ms

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182 ms

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187 ms

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145 ms

DiPietroBanner300x250.gif

DiPietroBanner300x250.gif

273 ms

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238 ms

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179 ms

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201 ms

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203 ms

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214 ms

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37 ms

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rpc:shindig_random.js

35 ms

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199 ms

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27 ms

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24 ms

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189 ms

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

cambridgenow.ca accessibility score

57

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cambridgenow.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

cambridgenow.ca SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cambridgenow.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 Cambridgenow.ca 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.

Social Sharing Optimization

cambridgenow.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cambridge Now. 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: