Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

less.ca

Less Emissions

Page Load Speed

821 ms in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

576 ms

Page Rendered

166 ms

less.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to less.ca homepage info - get ready to check Less best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about less.ca

Less Emissions helps people and organizations mitigate travel emissions quickly, effectively—and with the highest quality offsets in Canada.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Less.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 742 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

less.ca performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.197

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

less.ca

79 ms

www.less.ca

151 ms

bodystyle.css

50 ms

hyper.css

51 ms

ga.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Less.ca, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (239 ms) belongs to the original domain Less.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

72.6 kB

After Optimization

54.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Less.ca main page is 72.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. 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 13.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 32.4 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. Less images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 642 B

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. Less.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Less. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

less.ca accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

less.ca best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

less.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Less.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 Less.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

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