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ipolitics.com

Canadian News and Politics - iPolitics

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

824 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ipolitics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 67 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

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Network Requests Diagram

ipolitics.ca

67 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

15 ms

sjm-dfp-custom.css

26 ms

style.css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Ipolitics.com, 8% (9 requests) were made to Datawrapper.dwcdn.net and 6% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (764 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ipolitics.com main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 93.0 kB

  • Original 124.4 kB
  • After minification 122.1 kB
  • After compression 31.4 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 93.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 294.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Obviously, IPolitics needs image optimization as it can save up to 294.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 592.6 kB

  • Original 967.8 kB
  • After minification 964.5 kB
  • After compression 375.2 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 592.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 186.2 kB
  • After minification 163.3 kB
  • After compression 43.9 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. Ipolitics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (58%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

43

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IPolitics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Ipolitics.com 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 Ipolitics.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

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