Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

parkscanadahistory.com

History of Parks Canada Electronic Library and Archive / Histoire de la bibliothèque électronique et archive de Parcs Canada

Page Load Speed

877 ms in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

470 ms

Page Rendered

266 ms

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About Website

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An Electronic Library containing digital editions of documents published by or about Parks Canada and the National Parks, National Historic Sites, and National Marine Conservation Areas covering their...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parkscanadahistory.com page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 736 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

parkscanadahistory.com performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

93/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parkscanadahistory.com

141 ms

style.css

32 ms

parkscanadahistorycom_logo.jpg

329 ms

park-of-the-month-0124.jpg

139 ms

calendar-0124.jpg

273 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Parkscanadahistory.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) belongs to the original domain Parkscanadahistory.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

783.6 kB

After Optimization

732.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Parkscanadahistory.com main page is 783.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 725.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 5.7 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 43.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 725.5 kB
  • After minification 720.0 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. Parks Canada History images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Parkscanadahistory.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parks Canada History. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

parkscanadahistory.com accessibility score

81

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.

Best Practices

parkscanadahistory.com best practices score

75

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

parkscanadahistory.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Parkscanadahistory.com 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 Parkscanadahistory.com 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 Parks Canada History. 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: