Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

canadianxpress.ca

Canadian Xpress Virtual Airline® - Fly Virtually Anywhere!

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

859 ms

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

221 ms

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About Website

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Canadian Xpress® is a Canadian based virtual airline with a free flying policy dedicated to the hobby of flight simulation and provides a realistic, high quality environment to operate virtual flights...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadianxpress.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 859 ms and then it took 9.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

canadianxpress.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,120 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

canadianxpress.ca

859 ms

CanadianXpress.css

104 ms

WebResource.axd

91 ms

ScriptResource.axd

111 ms

ScriptResource.axd

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (173 requests) were addressed to the original Canadianxpress.ca, 1% (1 request) were made to Va-list.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Tsviewer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Canadianxpress.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.9 MB (62%)

Content Size

17.8 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Canadianxpress.ca main page is 17.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 17.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 194.8 kB

  • Original 224.6 kB
  • After minification 212.4 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 194.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 10.7 MB

  • Original 17.5 MB
  • After minification 6.8 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. Obviously, Canadian Xpress needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.7 MB or 61% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 757 B

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 1.7 kB
  • After compression 901 B

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. Canadianxpress.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 757 B or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (6%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

163

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canadian Xpress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

canadianxpress.ca accessibility score

49

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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Best Practices

canadianxpress.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

canadianxpress.ca SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Canadianxpress.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Canadianxpress.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Canadian Xpress. 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: