Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

newswatchcanada.ca

NewsWatchCanada.ca ~ Canadian & world breaking news and worthy comment updated 24/7...

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

7.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newswatchcanada.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 10.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newswatchcanada.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

newswatchcanada.ca

412 ms

www.newswatchcanada.ca

436 ms

widgets.js

214 ms

75 ms

low%20ACherney_ATCA_Pano_print-1024x512.jpg

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Newswatchcanada.ca, 21% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 8% (9 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Sender.megapopads.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 520.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Newswatchcanada.ca main page is 5.6 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 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 390.2 kB

  • Original 510.2 kB
  • After minification 492.9 kB
  • After compression 120.0 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. 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 390.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. News Watch Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 144.6 kB
  • After minification 140.6 kB
  • After compression 104.2 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 40.4 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 70 B

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.6 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Newswatchcanada.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (17%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

89

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Watch 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

newswatchcanada.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newswatchcanada.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Newswatchcanada.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 News Watch 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: