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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

simplerate.ca

SimpleRate.ca - Find the best loan & mortgage rates in Canada - Simple Rate

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simplerate.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

simplerate.ca performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,770 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.107

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.simplerate.ca

320 ms

style.min.css

68 ms

styles.css

171 ms

widget-options.css

208 ms

style.css

284 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Simplerate.ca, 10% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to My.sendinblue.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Simplerate.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

595.3 kB

After Optimization

409.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simplerate.ca main page is 595.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 335.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.6 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 125.1 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 115.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 335.6 kB
  • After minification 289.4 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. Obviously, Simple Rate needs image optimization as it can save up to 46.3 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 95.8 kB
  • After minification 95.8 kB
  • After compression 71.7 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 24.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 28.0 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Simplerate.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (56%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simple Rate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

simplerate.ca accessibility score

72

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

simplerate.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

simplerate.ca 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

simplerate.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Simple Rate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: