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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

thestar.com

Breaking News - Headlines & Top Stories | The Star

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

49 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

4.2 sec

thestar.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thestar.com homepage info - get ready to check The Star best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about thestar.com

thestar.com is Canada’s largest online news site. Live news, investigations, politics, sports and the heartbeat of Toronto, Canada's largest city.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 49 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thestar.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestar.com

49 ms

www.thestar.com

211 ms

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152 ms

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203 ms

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200 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Thestar.com, 47% (31 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (530 ms) relates to the external source Torstar.gscontxt.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 513.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

505.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thestar.com main page is 1.0 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 546.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 481.1 kB

  • Original 546.9 kB
  • After minification 453.1 kB
  • After compression 65.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 93.8 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 481.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 395 B

  • Original 162.3 kB
  • After minification 161.9 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. The Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 251.5 kB
  • After compression 231.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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. Thestar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.2 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (73%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thestar.com

thestar.com

49 ms

www.thestar.com

www.thestar.com

211 ms

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152 ms

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203 ms

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200 ms

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200 ms

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170 ms

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168 ms

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271 ms

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250 ms

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249 ms

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258 ms

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256 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

310 ms

thestar-sdk.js

thestar-sdk.js

295 ms

footer.nav.js

footer.nav.js

255 ms

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255 ms

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254 ms

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278 ms

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292 ms

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290 ms

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277 ms

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435 ms

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263 ms

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354 ms

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435 ms

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268 ms

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261 ms

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248 ms

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247 ms

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247 ms

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246 ms

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337 ms

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411 ms

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411 ms

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412 ms

gtm.js

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257 ms

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206 ms

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200 ms

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channels.cgi

530 ms

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176 ms

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167 ms

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172 ms

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167 ms

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151 ms

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98 ms

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176 ms

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Accessibility Review

thestar.com accessibility score

77

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

thestar.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thestar.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

thestar.com

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