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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 81% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

canadagold.ca

Canada Gold | Buy and Sell Gold in Canada - Best Gold Prices

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

444 ms

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About Website

Welcome to canadagold.ca homepage info - get ready to check Canada Gold best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about canadagold.ca

Buy and sell Gold, Silver, Diamonds and other precious metals at BBB-accredited Canada Gold. Call 1 ­(888­) 682­-5832 to find your nearest location.

Visit canadagold.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Canadagold.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 36 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 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canadagold.ca performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canadagold.ca

36 ms

canadagold.ca

64 ms

fbevents.js

38 ms

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118 ms

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85 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Canadagold.ca, 15% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 10% (9 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (882 ms) belongs to the original domain Canadagold.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

859.2 kB

After Optimization

702.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Canadagold.ca main page is 859.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 347.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.4 kB

  • Original 135.4 kB
  • After minification 130.8 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. 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 110.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 309.1 kB
  • After minification 305.8 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. Canada Gold images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 347.1 kB
  • After minification 347.1 kB
  • After compression 309.3 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 37.8 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 67.6 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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. Canadagold.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (76%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canada Gold. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

canadagold.ca accessibility score

93

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

canadagold.ca best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

canadagold.ca SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Canadagold.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 Canadagold.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

canadagold.ca

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