Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

parentscanada.com

ParentsCanada | Canada's Leading Parenting Website

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

929 ms

Page Rendered

64 ms

parentscanada.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to parentscanada.com homepage info - get ready to check Parents Canada best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about parentscanada.com

The leading website for Canadian parenting advice. ParentsCanada has content for newborns, toddlers, contests and resources.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parentscanada.com page load time and found that the first response time was 66 ms and then it took 993 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parentscanada.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parentscanada.com

66 ms

www.parentscanada.com

306 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Parentscanada.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (306 ms) belongs to the original domain Parentscanada.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

770.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Parentscanada.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 659.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 707 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 674 B

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 707 B or 51% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 64.6 kB

  • Original 659.5 kB
  • After minification 594.9 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. Parents Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 269.2 kB

  • Original 427.9 kB
  • After minification 427.9 kB
  • After compression 158.7 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 269.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 65.7 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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. Parentscanada.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

parentscanada.com accessibility score

73

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

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

parentscanada.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parentscanada.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Parentscanada.com 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 Parentscanada.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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 Parents Canada. 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: