Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

classifieds.torontosun.com

Toronto Sun | Classifieds

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

classifieds.torontosun.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classifieds.torontosun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classifieds.torontosun.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.692

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classifieds.torontosun.com

2694 ms

gpt.js

10 ms

css

45 ms

system.css

46 ms

ap_mp_main.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Classifieds.torontosun.com, 51% (47 requests) were made to D2w746l7r32cn5.cloudfront.net and 15% (14 requests) were made to D6wp3qaq1pxey.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Classifieds.torontosun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 824.6 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Classifieds.torontosun.com main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 917.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 191.5 kB

  • Original 246.7 kB
  • After minification 235.6 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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 191.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 917.6 kB
  • After minification 880.9 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. Classifieds Toronto Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 488.2 kB

  • Original 718.3 kB
  • After minification 700.7 kB
  • After compression 230.1 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 488.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 108.2 kB

  • Original 127.0 kB
  • After minification 102.9 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. Classifieds.torontosun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (36%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classifieds Toronto Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

classifieds.torontosun.com accessibility score

94

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

Best Practices

classifieds.torontosun.com 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

SEO Factors

classifieds.torontosun.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Classifieds.torontosun.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 Classifieds.torontosun.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 Classifieds Toronto Sun. 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: