Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

contests.edmontonsun.com

Contest s | Edmonton Sweepstakes & Prizes | Edmonton Sun

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

contests.edmontonsun.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contests.edmontonsun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

contests.edmontonsun.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value48.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value63,080 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value89.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contests

115 ms

1852 ms

advertising.js

81 ms

css

77 ms

LoginRadiusV2.js

150 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Contests.edmontonsun.com, 25% (10 requests) were made to Smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital and 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Edmontonsun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 399.4 kB (74%)

Content Size

541.6 kB

After Optimization

142.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Contests.edmontonsun.com main page is 541.6 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 423.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 376.9 kB

  • Original 423.3 kB
  • After minification 422.4 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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 376.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 87.1 kB
  • After minification 85.2 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. Contest S Edmonton Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 31.2 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 20.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contest S Edmonton Sun. 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

contests.edmontonsun.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

contests.edmontonsun.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

contests.edmontonsun.com SEO score

89

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

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 Contests.edmontonsun.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 Contests.edmontonsun.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 description is not detected on the main page of Contest S Edmonton Sun. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: