Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

listing.ca

MLS® Listings, Real Estate for Sale and For Rent | Listing.ca

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

606 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

listing.ca screenshot

About Website

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

Browse 41,425 MLS® Listings for Sale, Real Estate Search, Homes, Townhomes and Condominiums for Sale.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Listing.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 606 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

listing.ca performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,370 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

listing.ca

606 ms

style.css

70 ms

fin-ad.css

89 ms

adsbygoogle.js

113 ms

js

50 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Listing.ca, 54% (20 requests) were made to Media.listing.ca and 3% (1 request) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (606 ms) belongs to the original domain Listing.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

628.3 kB

After Optimization

437.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Listing.ca main page is 628.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 238.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 175.8 kB

  • Original 201.9 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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 47.7 kB, which is 24% 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 175.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 227.7 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. Listing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 179.2 kB
  • After minification 179.2 kB
  • After compression 177.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 8.3 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. Listing.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Listing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

listing.ca accessibility score

67

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

listing.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

listing.ca SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Listing.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 Listing.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 Listing. 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: