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stcbus.com

STC, The Saskatchewan Transportation Company Home Page

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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About Website

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STC, The Saskatchewan Transportation Company is a provincial crown corporation providing passenger and express bus service to the people of Saskatchewan.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stcbus.com page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stcbus.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

stcbus.com

370 ms

screen.css

135 ms

stc.css

168 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

351 ms

cufon.js

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Stcbus.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Stcbus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.6 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

906.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stcbus.com main page is 1.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 944.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 38.0 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 25.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 115.8 kB

  • Original 944.4 kB
  • After minification 828.6 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. Obviously, STC Bus needs image optimization as it can save up to 115.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 73.0 kB

  • Original 135.6 kB
  • After minification 132.8 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 73.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Stcbus.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (40%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of STC Bus. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

stcbus.com

stcbus.com

370 ms

screen.css

screen.css

135 ms

stc.css

stc.css

168 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

351 ms

cufon.js

cufon.js

201 ms

font.js

font.js

252 ms

core.js

core.js

173 ms

iepngfix_tilebg.js

iepngfix_tilebg.js

318 ms

JavaScript.js

JavaScript.js

320 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

55 ms

body_bg.jpg

body_bg.jpg

88 ms

search-btn.gif

search-btn.gif

102 ms

ParcelExpress.jpg

ParcelExpress.jpg

2320 ms

Frequent_Rider.jpg

Frequent_Rider.jpg

2120 ms

RideRewardsClick.jpg

RideRewardsClick.jpg

1665 ms

ScheduleChanges.jpg

ScheduleChanges.jpg

2131 ms

all_bg.png

all_bg.png

3032 ms

quicklink-bullet.jpg

quicklink-bullet.jpg

375 ms

stc_logo.png

stc_logo.png

1210 ms

main_top_trans.png

main_top_trans.png

1615 ms

main_tile_trans.png

main_tile_trans.png

2068 ms

tile_pattern.png

tile_pattern.png

2071 ms

nav.png

nav.png

2331 ms

white_top_bg.gif

white_top_bg.gif

2332 ms

sidebar_top.png

sidebar_top.png

2855 ms

sidebar_tile.gif

sidebar_tile.gif

2408 ms

sidebar_bot.png

sidebar_bot.png

2694 ms

etickets_btn.jpg

etickets_btn.jpg

2821 ms

schedule_btn.jpg

schedule_btn.jpg

2724 ms

riderewards_btn.jpg

riderewards_btn.jpg

2910 ms

deals_btn.jpg

deals_btn.jpg

3061 ms

arrivals_btn.jpg

arrivals_btn.jpg

3092 ms

featured-bg.png

featured-bg.png

3187 ms

paperclip.png

paperclip.png

3204 ms

feature-control-bg.png

feature-control-bg.png

3209 ms

white_bot_bg.gif

white_bot_bg.gif

3236 ms

Footer_Bus.png

Footer_Bus.png

3580 ms

FBLogo.png

FBLogo.png

3373 ms

LinkedInLogo.png

LinkedInLogo.png

3392 ms

main_bot_trans.png

main_bot_trans.png

3398 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

SEO Factors

stcbus.com SEO score

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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 Stcbus.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 Stcbus.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of STC Bus. 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: