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Welcome to therecord.com homepage info - get ready to check Therecord best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about therecord.com
TheRecord.com is your Kitchener-Waterloo daily online newspaper. It’s your source for what’s on, news, sports and events pulled from the Waterloo Region Record.
Visit therecord.comWe analyzed Therecord.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.
therecord.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 278 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Therecord.com, 18% (51 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com and 12% (33 requests) were made to Save.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) relates to the external source Jobs.localwork.ca.
Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (41%)
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In fact, the total size of Therecord.com main page is 6.9 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. 85% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 208.5 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 42.1 kB, which is 15% 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 208.5 kB or 76% of the original size.
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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. Therecord images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 1.9 MB
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 1.9 MB or 73% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 444.5 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. Therecord.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 444.5 kB or 81% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 118 (45%)
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The browser has sent 262 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Therecord. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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therecord.com accessibility score
Navigation
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Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0
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Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Page has valid source maps
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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Document uses legible font sizes
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Therecord.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 Therecord.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Therecord. 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: