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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

discoverychannel.ca

Discovery - Citytv+

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

discoverychannel.ca screenshot

About Website

Visit discoverychannel.ca now to see the best up-to-date Discovery Channel content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about discoverychannel.ca

Illustrating the world in all its wonder, Discovery creates the highest quality, authentic content that transports fans into new worlds through awe inspiring stories and immersive experiences.

Visit discoverychannel.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverychannel.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverychannel.ca performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value34.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value51,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value65.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverychannel.ca

101 ms

www.discovery.ca

282 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

discovery.css

201 ms

font-awesome.css

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Discoverychannel.ca, 42% (45 requests) were made to Discovery.ca and 18% (19 requests) were made to Components.bellmedia.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Components.bellmedia.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (42%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverychannel.ca main page is 3.4 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. 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 105.2 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 125.1 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 105.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 112.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Discovery Channel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 717.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 717.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 493.0 kB

  • Original 565.7 kB
  • After minification 479.8 kB
  • After compression 72.7 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. Discoverychannel.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 493.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (50%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

50

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discovery Channel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

discoverychannel.ca

discoverychannel.ca

101 ms

www.discovery.ca

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282 ms

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22 ms

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201 ms

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14 ms

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112 ms

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31 ms

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84 ms

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28 ms

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58 ms

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58 ms

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19 ms

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25 ms

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26 ms

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105 ms

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106 ms

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75 ms

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61 ms

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64 ms

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422 ms

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1570 ms

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17 ms

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69 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

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33 ms

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31 ms

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27 ms

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148 ms

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11 ms

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603 ms

Accessibility Review

discoverychannel.ca accessibility score

96

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

discoverychannel.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

discoverychannel.ca SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Discoverychannel.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 Discoverychannel.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

discoverychannel.ca

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