Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

cambridgetimes.ca

Cambridge, Ontario News | Cambridge Times

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

10.5 sec

Page Rendered

939 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cambridgetimes.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 11.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cambridgetimes.ca performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,870 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.345

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cambridgetimes.ca

96 ms

www.cambridgetimes.ca

157 ms

64 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 504 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Cambridgetimes.ca, 11% (55 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 10% (49 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Save.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (36%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Cambridgetimes.ca main page is 6.1 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. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 187.9 kB

  • Original 248.6 kB
  • After minification 205.7 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 42.9 kB, which is 17% 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 187.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 135.8 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB

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 Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 638.9 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 1.6 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 272.2 kB

  • Original 335.4 kB
  • After minification 310.0 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Cambridgetimes.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 272.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 281 (61%)

Requests Now

462

After Optimization

181

The browser has sent 462 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cambridge Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 114 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cambridgetimes.ca accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

cambridgetimes.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cambridgetimes.ca SEO score

92

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cambridgetimes.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 Cambridgetimes.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 Cambridge Times. 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: