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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

paperfinder.ca

Welcome to Canadian Paper Finder

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

118 ms

paperfinder.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to paperfinder.ca homepage info - get ready to check Paper Finder best content right away, or after learning these important things about paperfinder.ca

The Canadian Paper Finder catalogues and cross references the extensive variety of commercial printing papers available from paper merchants across Canada

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paperfinder.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

paperfinder.ca performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

89/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paperfinder.ca

56 ms

paperfinder.ca

82 ms

ga.js

17 ms

paperfinder.css

50 ms

97f1b9dc384097206e1fa261b7213a22.jpg

1740 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Paperfinder.ca, 9% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Northislandpublishing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Northislandpublishing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

74.2 kB

After Optimization

64.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paperfinder.ca main page is 74.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 47.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 5.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 44.4 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. Paper Finder 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

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 451 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. Paperfinder.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (40%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paper Finder. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

paperfinder.ca

paperfinder.ca

56 ms

paperfinder.ca

paperfinder.ca

82 ms

ga.js

ga.js

17 ms

paperfinder.css

paperfinder.css

50 ms

97f1b9dc384097206e1fa261b7213a22.jpg

97f1b9dc384097206e1fa261b7213a22.jpg

1740 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

24 ms

head1.gif

head1.gif

46 ms

buttons1.gif

buttons1.gif

53 ms

adrate.gif

adrate.gif

54 ms

pfimage.gif

pfimage.gif

70 ms

PFban.gif

PFban.gif

56 ms

symb1.gif

symb1.gif

55 ms

symb2.gif

symb2.gif

65 ms

symb3.gif

symb3.gif

73 ms

symb4.gif

symb4.gif

74 ms

symb5.gif

symb5.gif

76 ms

symb6.gif

symb6.gif

77 ms

symb7.gif

symb7.gif

85 ms

symb8.gif

symb8.gif

92 ms

bottomlinks.gif

bottomlinks.gif

93 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

search_query_bkg.png

search_query_bkg.png

81 ms

Accessibility Review

paperfinder.ca accessibility score

55

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

paperfinder.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

paperfinder.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 Paperfinder.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 Paperfinder.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

paperfinder.ca

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