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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

cochranetoday.ca

Cochrane News - Daily Local News for Cochrane, Alberta - CochraneToday.ca

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit cochranetoday.ca now to see the best up-to-date Cochrane Today content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cochranetoday.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cochranetoday.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cochranetoday.ca performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cochranetoday.ca

211 ms

template_greatwest

12 ms

head

32 ms

analytics.js

447 ms

gpt.js

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Cochranetoday.ca, 57% (38 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Vmcdn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 209.9 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

860.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Cochranetoday.ca main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 793.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 158.0 kB

  • Original 191.9 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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 158.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 793.4 kB
  • After minification 769.6 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. Cochrane Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 28.0 kB

  • Original 84.9 kB
  • After minification 84.9 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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 28.0 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (33%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cochrane Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cochranetoday.ca

www.cochranetoday.ca

211 ms

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12 ms

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32 ms

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447 ms

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659 ms

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130 ms

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828 ms

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663 ms

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210 ms

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Accessibility Review

cochranetoday.ca accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

cochranetoday.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

cochranetoday.ca SEO score

96

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

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 Cochranetoday.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 Cochranetoday.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

cochranetoday.ca

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