Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

rabble.ca

rabble - News for the rest of us. Canada’s indie media source.

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rabble.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 205 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

rabble.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.308

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rabble.ca

205 ms

css_3607835906999a5379c060407dc2e078_39.css

88 ms

css_495a8ab6e5bb5511cb62e5590cd055a1_0.css

90 ms

css_484cc23872888747bcd740a2fce24f5e_39.css

94 ms

css_9d514348215bad28a97b0c6a294f5fec_212.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Rabble.ca, 8% (7 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net and 8% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (466 ms) belongs to the original domain Rabble.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Rabble.ca main page is 2.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 159.4 kB

  • Original 205.4 kB
  • After minification 196.7 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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 159.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 160.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 852.0 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. Obviously, Rabble needs image optimization as it can save up to 160.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 844.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 326.8 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 844.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 127.7 kB

  • Original 157.8 kB
  • After minification 152.5 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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. Rabble.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 127.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (44%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rabble. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rabble.ca accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rabble.ca best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

rabble.ca SEO score

89

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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