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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

timescolonist.com

Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria Times Colonist

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

737 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Times Colonist content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about timescolonist.com

Your best source for Victoria BC's news, sports, business, community news and events, entertainment, lifestyles, obituaries, and opinion coverage.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timescolonist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

timescolonist.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,990 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.timescolonist.com

89 ms

css

63 ms

template_via

21 ms

gpt.js

297 ms

js

230 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Timescolonist.com, 19% (6 requests) were made to Vmcdn.ca and 13% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (459 ms) relates to the external source Vmcdn.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 226.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

640.1 kB

After Optimization

413.8 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Timescolonist.com main page is 640.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 526.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 94.1 kB

  • Original 114.1 kB
  • After minification 98.2 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.8 kB, which is 14% 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 94.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 526.0 kB
  • After minification 526.0 kB
  • After compression 393.8 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 132.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (79%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times Colonist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.timescolonist.com

www.timescolonist.com

89 ms

css

css

63 ms

template_via

template_via

21 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

297 ms

js

js

230 ms

25542.js

25542.js

231 ms

evvnt_discovery_plugin-latest.min.js

evvnt_discovery_plugin-latest.min.js

54 ms

widgets

widgets

46 ms

template

template

56 ms

e4z06gxw.js

e4z06gxw.js

55 ms

p.js

p.js

53 ms

flipptag.js

flipptag.js

223 ms

services

services

233 ms

tc-flag-crest.svg

tc-flag-crest.svg

370 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

160 ms

305 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

229 ms

user-o.svg

user-o.svg

302 ms

search.svg

search.svg

307 ms

gallery.svg

gallery.svg

308 ms

facebook-w.svg

facebook-w.svg

458 ms

x-w.svg

x-w.svg

459 ms

e4z06gxw.json

e4z06gxw.json

204 ms

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrJJfedw.ttf

pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrJJfedw.ttf

283 ms

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6Z1xlEA.ttf

pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLEj6Z1xlEA.ttf

301 ms

js

js

164 ms

js

js

321 ms

js

js

319 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

105 ms

runtime.cbd9bc4.js

runtime.cbd9bc4.js

363 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

119 ms

4326737

4326737

164 ms

Accessibility Review

timescolonist.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

timescolonist.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

timescolonist.com SEO score

95

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

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 Timescolonist.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 Timescolonist.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

timescolonist.com

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