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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

pdac.ca

PDAC | The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

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About Website

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

PDAC is the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community, an industry that employs more than 665,000 individuals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pdac.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pdac.ca performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value55.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pdac.ca

251 ms

www.pdac.ca

456 ms

vsq2ody.js

127 ms

ga.js

143 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

224 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Pdac.ca, 31% (14 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) belongs to the original domain Pdac.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 592.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

982.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pdac.ca main page is 1.6 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 813.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 42.9 kB
  • After minification 40.9 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 32.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 38.3 kB

  • Original 813.8 kB
  • After minification 775.5 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. PDAC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 463.0 kB

  • Original 648.4 kB
  • After minification 614.2 kB
  • After compression 185.4 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 463.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 58.4 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Pdac.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (48%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PDAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pdac.ca

pdac.ca

251 ms

www.pdac.ca

www.pdac.ca

456 ms

vsq2ody.js

vsq2ody.js

127 ms

ga.js

ga.js

143 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

224 ms

layout_transformations.css

layout_transformations.css

226 ms

base.css

base.css

227 ms

navigation.css

navigation.css

174 ms

anythingslider.css

anythingslider.css

208 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

283 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

337 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

301 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

372 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

534 ms

www.pdac.ca

www.pdac.ca

127 ms

TwitterApiProxy.ashx

TwitterApiProxy.ashx

434 ms

jquery.anythingslider.min.js

jquery.anythingslider.min.js

221 ms

pdac.js

pdac.js

289 ms

ga.js

ga.js

29 ms

logo-pdac.gif

logo-pdac.gif

158 ms

pdac-2015-banner-(homepage).jpg

pdac-2015-banner-(homepage).jpg

465 ms

pdacwebbanner_edited-17bd6cbd3737861ad9066ff000004e9e6.jpg

pdacwebbanner_edited-17bd6cbd3737861ad9066ff000004e9e6.jpg

659 ms

unlocking-northern-potential.jpg

unlocking-northern-potential.jpg

384 ms

exploration-banner.jpg

exploration-banner.jpg

394 ms

core-winter-2016-thumbnail.jpg

core-winter-2016-thumbnail.jpg

384 ms

pdac-annual-report-2015.jpg

pdac-annual-report-2015.jpg

465 ms

icon-twitter.png

icon-twitter.png

465 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

27 ms

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Accessibility Review

pdac.ca accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

pdac.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pdac.ca SEO score

65

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    UTF-8

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

pdac.ca

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