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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

homer.ca

Canadian Directory and Search Engine - Guide to Canadian Cyberspace

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

homer.ca screenshot

About Website

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

Canada's guide to news and information featuring Canadian radio and TV webcasts, job listings, maps, search engines, and other useful resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homer.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homer.ca performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.389

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homer.ca

143 ms

show_ads.js

5 ms

canadaflag.gif

56 ms

menutop.gif

54 ms

menubottom.gif

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Homer.ca, 17% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

151.8 kB

After Optimization

89.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Homer.ca main page is 151.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 59.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 57.0 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 6.5 kB, which is 11% 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 47.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 56.1 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. Homer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 12.6 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (57%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homer.ca

homer.ca

143 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

5 ms

canadaflag.gif

canadaflag.gif

56 ms

menutop.gif

menutop.gif

54 ms

menubottom.gif

menubottom.gif

55 ms

vancouvercanada2.JPG

vancouvercanada2.JPG

147 ms

ca-pub-6446269203467944.js

ca-pub-6446269203467944.js

50 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

55 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

58 ms

Logo_25wht.gif

Logo_25wht.gif

44 ms

all.js

all.js

282 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

107 ms

in.js

in.js

33 ms

menumiddle.gif

menumiddle.gif

101 ms

newscube04.gif

newscube04.gif

104 ms

ads

ads

286 ms

osd.js

osd.js

52 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

99 ms

secureAnonymousFramework

secureAnonymousFramework

61 ms

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

button.0308b81ff1714e446f674b5b9793f2cd.js

147 ms

ads

ads

269 ms

sprite_connect_v14.png

sprite_connect_v14.png

54 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

9 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

26 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

93 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

90 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

25 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

23 ms

101 ms

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

tweet_button.b9740740e0bcf9b0657c5b11bd4388da.en.html

74 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

237 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

460 ms

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

3193398744-postmessagerelay.js

58 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

62 ms

7465816730207727213

7465816730207727213

77 ms

abg.js

abg.js

82 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

99 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

80 ms

13077156096584944014

13077156096584944014

110 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

27 ms

s

s

39 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

45 ms

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

fBnyGA8Aionz5086-mElmoOSPUuyQ1M9Un647_EjucU.js

4 ms

ui

ui

84 ms

jot

jot

121 ms

like.php

like.php

88 ms

qeKvIRsJabD.js

qeKvIRsJabD.js

481 ms

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

LVx-xkvaJ0b.png

546 ms

Accessibility Review

homer.ca accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

homer.ca 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

homer.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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homer.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 Homer.ca main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

homer.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Homer. 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: