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toronto.24hrs.ca

GTA | Greater Toronto Area News | The Star

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

134 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Toronto.24hrs.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 134 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

toronto.24hrs.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.toronto24hours.ca

134 ms

all_en.css

88 ms

all_en.js

156 ms

gpt.js

9 ms

brand

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Toronto.24hrs.ca, 21% (22 requests) were made to Storage.toronto.24hrs.ca and 10% (11 requests) were made to D29xw9s9x32j3w.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (447 ms) relates to the external source Storage.toronto.24hrs.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 664.0 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

890.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Toronto.24hrs.ca main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 910.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 54.1 kB

  • Original 68.3 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 54.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 570.0 kB
  • After minification 563.6 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. Toronto 24 Hrs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 599.2 kB

  • Original 910.2 kB
  • After minification 904.7 kB
  • After compression 311.1 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 599.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Toronto.24hrs.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (35%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Toronto 24 Hrs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

toronto.24hrs.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 Toronto.24hrs.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 Toronto.24hrs.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 Toronto 24 Hrs. 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: