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Discovery Centre, Halifax, offers fun, hands-on learning experiences, including Atlantic Canada’s only Dome Theatre
Visit thediscoverycentre.caWe analyzed Thediscoverycentre.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 157 ms and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.
thediscoverycentre.ca performance score
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Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Thediscoverycentre.ca, 13% (11 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 5% (4 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Thediscoverycentre.ca.
Page size can be reduced by 316.8 kB (6%)
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In fact, the total size of Thediscoverycentre.ca main page is 5.1 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. 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 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 49.2 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 49.2 kB or 79% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 154.4 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. The Discovery Centre images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 107.2 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 107.2 kB or 40% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 5.9 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. Thediscoverycentre.ca has all CSS files already compressed.
Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (73%)
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The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Discovery Centre. 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 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thediscoverycentre.ca accessibility score
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.
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Links do not have a discernible name
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
thediscoverycentre.ca best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools
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Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
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Links do not have descriptive text
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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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/).
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Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thediscoverycentre.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 Thediscoverycentre.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.
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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Discovery Centre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: