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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

yahoo.ca

Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, News, Finance, Sports, Shopping, Entertainment, Video

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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About Website

Visit yahoo.ca now to see the best up-to-date Yahoo content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about yahoo.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yahoo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yahoo.ca performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yahoo.ca

145 ms

ca.yahoo.com

40 ms

ca.yahoo.com

677 ms

combo

31 ms

atomic-min.css

4 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Yahoo.ca, 56% (50 requests) were made to S.yimg.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (677 ms) relates to the external source Ca.yahoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 938.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

717.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Yahoo.ca main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 576.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 396.4 kB

  • Original 511.5 kB
  • After minification 450.1 kB
  • After compression 115.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 61.4 kB, which is 12% 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 396.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 815 B

  • Original 361.1 kB
  • After minification 360.3 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. Yahoo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 379.8 kB

  • Original 576.6 kB
  • After minification 574.7 kB
  • After compression 196.7 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 379.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 161.5 kB

  • Original 207.0 kB
  • After minification 206.8 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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. Yahoo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 161.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (48%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yahoo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

yahoo.ca

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40 ms

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75 ms

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51 ms

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24 ms

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Accessibility Review

yahoo.ca accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

yahoo.ca 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

yahoo.ca SEO score

98

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 Yahoo.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 Yahoo.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

yahoo.ca

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