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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

yowcanada.com

YOW Canada Inc. - Leaders in TDG and WHMIS Training & Materials

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

115 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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WHMIS Training, TDG Training, Confined Space & Fall Protection Training, Online program for Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS), including WHMIS products & videos, WHMIS symbols, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yowcanada.com page load time and found that the first response time was 115 ms and then it took 2.7 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

yowcanada.com performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.222

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yowcanada.com

115 ms

yowcanada.com

175 ms

new-layout-style.css

67 ms

page-style.css

101 ms

jquery.min.js

386 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Yowcanada.com, 4% (2 requests) were made to Sealserver.trustwave.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Seal-ottawa.bbb.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Yowcanada.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Yowcanada.com main page is 2.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 7.6 kB, which is 27% 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 22.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 103.6 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. YOW Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 96.7 kB
  • After minification 96.7 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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 62.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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. Yowcanada.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (8%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

45

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of YOW Canada. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

yowcanada.com

yowcanada.com

115 ms

yowcanada.com

yowcanada.com

175 ms

new-layout-style.css

new-layout-style.css

67 ms

page-style.css

page-style.css

101 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

386 ms

splide.min.js

splide.min.js

179 ms

splide.min.css

splide.min.css

154 ms

seal.js

seal.js

104 ms

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blue-seal-63-134-yowcanadainc-25392.png

233 ms

seal_image.php

seal_image.php

159 ms

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blue-seal-200-42-whitetxt-bbb-25392.png

260 ms

YOW-Header-E.png

YOW-Header-E.png

161 ms

facebook-circle.png

facebook-circle.png

161 ms

youtube-circle.png

youtube-circle.png

160 ms

twitter-circle.png

twitter-circle.png

159 ms

google-circle.png

google-circle.png

142 ms

menubg.jpg

menubg.jpg

140 ms

cart.png

cart.png

141 ms

index-SALE-BackToWork.png

index-SALE-BackToWork.png

260 ms

index-h2S.png

index-h2S.png

821 ms

index-LOTO.png

index-LOTO.png

657 ms

index-pg_app_whmis.png

index-pg_app_whmis.png

693 ms

app_google.png

app_google.png

140 ms

app_ios.png

app_ios.png

142 ms

party-left.png

party-left.png

198 ms

party.png

party.png

596 ms

AlgonquinCollegeLogo.png

AlgonquinCollegeLogo.png

205 ms

BorealLogo.png

BorealLogo.png

235 ms

HR4ULogo.png

HR4ULogo.png

261 ms

DraegerLogo.png

DraegerLogo.png

294 ms

KildairServiceUlcLogo.png

KildairServiceUlcLogo.png

294 ms

ImmunoVaccineIncLogo.png

ImmunoVaccineIncLogo.png

317 ms

WakefieldLogo.png

WakefieldLogo.png

317 ms

HumberLogo.png

HumberLogo.png

345 ms

CommissionairesOttawaLogo.jpg

CommissionairesOttawaLogo.jpg

343 ms

FlemingLogo.png

FlemingLogo.png

381 ms

TcdsbLogo.png

TcdsbLogo.png

381 ms

CooperatorsLogo.png

CooperatorsLogo.png

410 ms

GroupeGilbertLogo.png

GroupeGilbertLogo.png

409 ms

small_online_training.png

small_online_training.png

904 ms

small_industry_news.png

small_industry_news.png

444 ms

small_support.png

small_support.png

474 ms

username_password_input.png

username_password_input.png

499 ms

laptop_phone_tablet.png

laptop_phone_tablet.png

1043 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

619 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

520 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

545 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

547 ms

NAOSHW.png

NAOSHW.png

609 ms

robo-condensed.woff

robo-condensed.woff

553 ms

eras_demi_itc.woff

eras_demi_itc.woff

569 ms

new-layout-style-mobile-portrait.css

new-layout-style-mobile-portrait.css

28 ms

page-style-mobile-portrait.css

page-style-mobile-portrait.css

29 ms

Accessibility Review

yowcanada.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

yowcanada.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

yowcanada.com SEO score

82

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Yowcanada.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 Yowcanada.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

yowcanada.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of YOW Canada. 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: