Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

cochranetoday.ca

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

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cochranetoday.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 93 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

cochranetoday.ca performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cochranetoday.ca

93 ms

www.cochraneeagle.ca

80 ms

template_greatwest

58 ms

js

110 ms

gpt.js

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Cochranetoday.ca, 41% (17 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 20% (8 requests) were made to Cochraneeagle.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) relates to the external source Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.0 kB (26%)

Content Size

733.6 kB

After Optimization

541.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cochranetoday.ca main page is 733.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 306.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.7 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 167.7 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 23.8 kB, which is 12% 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 156.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 236.1 kB
  • After minification 214.9 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 306.0 kB
  • After minification 306.0 kB
  • After compression 291.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (56%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 39 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cochranetoday.ca accessibility score

82

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

cochranetoday.ca best practices score

67

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

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cochranetoday.ca SEO score

97

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

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: