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bookstore.mcgill.ca

Home | Le James – McGill University Store

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

976 ms

Page Rendered

131 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bookstore.mcgill.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bookstore.mcgill.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

bookstore.mcgill.ca

279 ms

www.bookstore.mcgill.ca

273 ms

css_875a7ba2e04b46e2615e2f5e88094e04.css

59 ms

css_1303cd8155fcb4bb79529d7195478701.css

67 ms

jquery.js

117 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Bookstore.mcgill.ca, 3% (1 request) were made to Seal.verisign.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (279 ms) belongs to the original domain Bookstore.mcgill.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

898.3 kB

After Optimization

723.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Bookstore.mcgill.ca main page is 898.3 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 721.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 17.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 48.6 kB

  • Original 721.8 kB
  • After minification 673.3 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. Book Store Mc Gill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 89.1 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 62.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. Bookstore.mcgill.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (33%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Book Store Mc Gill. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

bookstore.mcgill.ca SEO score

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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 Bookstore.mcgill.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 Bookstore.mcgill.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 Book Store Mc Gill. 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: