Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

covid19now.com

COVID-19 Now - Focused Info for BC, Canada, and the USA

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

243 ms

covid19now.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing COVID 19 Now content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about covid19now.com

Live COVID-19 news, tips, and interactive charts, tables, and other statistics for British Columbia, Canada, and the United States.

Visit covid19now.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Covid19now.com page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 2.4 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

covid19now.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

covid19now.com

190 ms

covid19now.com

321 ms

divi-wpdt.css

349 ms

style.min.css

324 ms

jquery.min.js

291 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 26% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Covid19now.com, 26% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 14% (11 requests) were made to Datawrapper.dwcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (704 ms) belongs to the original domain Covid19now.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.6 kB (25%)

Content Size

758.5 kB

After Optimization

565.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Covid19now.com main page is 758.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 456.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 180.2 kB

  • Original 213.8 kB
  • After minification 209.9 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 180.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 34.1 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. COVID 19 Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 456.8 kB
  • After minification 456.8 kB
  • After compression 450.0 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 48.1 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. Covid19now.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (70%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of COVID 19 Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

covid19now.com accessibility score

84

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

covid19now.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

covid19now.com SEO score

86

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

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 Covid19now.com 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 Covid19now.com 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 COVID 19 Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: