Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

torontopubliclibrary.ca

Home : Toronto Public Library

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

91 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

267 ms

torontopubliclibrary.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to torontopubliclibrary.ca homepage info - get ready to check Toronto Public Library best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about torontopubliclibrary.ca

TPL is one of the world's busiest urban public library systems, with 100 branches across the city and over 10 million books, movies, and other items to borrow or download online.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Torontopubliclibrary.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 91 ms and then it took 2.2 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

torontopubliclibrary.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

torontopubliclibrary.ca

91 ms

www.torontopubliclibrary.ca

503 ms

tpl-css.jsp

171 ms

home-tpl.css

60 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Torontopubliclibrary.ca, 34% (18 requests) were made to Tpl.razuna.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (656 ms) relates to the external source Tpl.razuna.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.4 kB (46%)

Content Size

491.8 kB

After Optimization

263.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Torontopubliclibrary.ca main page is 491.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 204.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 63.1 kB

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 19.2 kB, which is 24% 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 63.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 204.8 kB
  • After minification 175.3 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, Toronto Public Library needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.4 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

-63%

Potential reduce by 116.8 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 184.7 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 116.8 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 16.5 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. Torontopubliclibrary.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (23%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Toronto Public Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

torontopubliclibrary.ca accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

torontopubliclibrary.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

torontopubliclibrary.ca SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Torontopubliclibrary.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 Torontopubliclibrary.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Toronto Public Library. 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: