Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

canadashistory.ca

Canada's History - Canada's History

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

325 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

618 ms

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About Website

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

Canada’s History Society is a national charitable organization with a programming budget of $2.7 million annually. Founded in 1994 to popularize Canadian history, the society’s work includes: Canada’s...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadashistory.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 325 ms and then it took 2.3 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

canadashistory.ca performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.413

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

325 ms

app.css

25 ms

adsbygoogle.js

600 ms

js

63 ms

dcxpw-init.js

270 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Canadashistory.ca, 20% (19 requests) were made to Encore.scdn.co and 16% (16 requests) were made to Embed-cdn.spotifycdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (600 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Canadashistory.ca main page is 4.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 30.8 kB, which is 31% 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 85.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 347.1 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Canada S History images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 176.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 856.2 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 176.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. Canadashistory.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.5 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (57%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canada S History. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

canadashistory.ca accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

canadashistory.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

canadashistory.ca SEO score

92

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 Canadashistory.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 Canadashistory.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 Canada S History. 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: