Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

yongestreetmedia.ca

Yonge Street -- What's new and what's next in Toronto

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

830 ms

yongestreetmedia.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yongestreetmedia.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

yongestreetmedia.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yongestreetmedia.ca

116 ms

www.yongestreetmedia.ca

74 ms

reset.css

149 ms

grid.css

171 ms

typography.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Yongestreetmedia.ca, 30% (38 requests) were made to Dsx.issuemediagroup.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (815 ms) belongs to the original domain Yongestreetmedia.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (17%)

Content Size

13.3 MB

After Optimization

11.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Yongestreetmedia.ca main page is 13.3 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. 85% 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 13.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 84.3 kB

  • Original 103.9 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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 84.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 13.0 MB
  • After minification 10.9 MB

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, Yonge Street Media needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 MB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 144.9 kB
  • After minification 144.9 kB
  • After compression 142.6 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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. Yongestreetmedia.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (56%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Yonge Street Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

yongestreetmedia.ca accessibility score

48

Accessibility Issues

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

yongestreetmedia.ca best practices score

42

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

yongestreetmedia.ca SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Yongestreetmedia.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Yongestreetmedia.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 data is detected on the main page of Yonge Street Media. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: