Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

franchisedirect.ca

Canada's Best Franchise Opportunities for Sale | Franchise Direct Canada

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

990 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franchisedirect.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franchisedirect.ca performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,880 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franchisedirect.ca

169 ms

www.franchisedirect.ca

63 ms

www.franchisedirectcanada.com

72 ms

css2

80 ms

3a55385e84.js

332 ms

Our browser made a total of 100 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Franchisedirect.ca, 58% (58 requests) were made to Static4.franchisedirect.ie and 11% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Static4.franchisedirect.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 481.5 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Franchisedirect.ca main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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 655.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 417.3 kB

  • Original 467.7 kB
  • After minification 405.5 kB
  • After compression 50.5 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 62.2 kB, which is 13% 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 417.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 655.5 kB
  • After minification 596.1 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. Franchise Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 455.4 kB
  • After minification 455.4 kB
  • After compression 451.8 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 168.9 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 167.7 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. Franchisedirect.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (32%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franchise Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franchisedirect.ca accessibility score

95

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

franchisedirect.ca best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

franchisedirect.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Franchisedirect.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 Franchisedirect.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 description is not detected on the main page of Franchise Direct. 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: