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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ducks.ca

Conserving Canada’s Wetlands | Ducks Unlimited Canada

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

693 ms

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About Website

Visit ducks.ca now to see the best up-to-date Ducks content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ducks.ca

Ducks Unlimited Canada has been conserving wetlands and other natural spaces for waterfowl, wildlife, and people for more than 80 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ducks.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ducks.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ducks.ca

82 ms

ducks.ca

228 ms

www.ducks.ca

104 ms

gtm.js

150 ms

fbevents.js

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Ducks.ca, 15% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (728 ms) relates to the external source Log.cookieyes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 135.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ducks.ca main page is 1.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 932.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 134.5 kB

  • Original 160.0 kB
  • After minification 134.5 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.5 kB, which is 16% 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 134.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 932.7 kB
  • After minification 932.7 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. Ducks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 481 B

  • Original 281.8 kB
  • After minification 281.8 kB
  • After compression 281.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 324 B

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 105.5 kB
  • After compression 105.2 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. Ducks.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (73%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ducks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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82 ms

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228 ms

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104 ms

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150 ms

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52 ms

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Accessibility Review

ducks.ca accessibility score

92

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

ducks.ca best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ducks.ca SEO score

92

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

    DU

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ducks.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ducks.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

ducks.ca

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