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airforce.ca

Royal Canadian Air Force Association - "Per Ardua Ad Astra"

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

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The Air Force Association of Canada is a national aerospace and community service organization established to: commemorate the noble achievements of the men and women who have served as members of Can...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Airforce.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

airforce.ca

78 ms

www.airforce.ca

76 ms

rcafassociation.ca

105 ms

ink-flex.min.css

24 ms

advanced-responsive-video-embedder-public.css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Airforce.ca, 95% (86 requests) were made to Rcafassociation.ca and 1% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Rcafassociation.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (39%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Airforce.ca main page is 2.6 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.2 kB

  • Original 44.9 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 36.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 120.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Air Force images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 574.5 kB

  • Original 822.2 kB
  • After minification 812.8 kB
  • After compression 247.7 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 574.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 288.3 kB

  • Original 339.6 kB
  • After minification 310.8 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Airforce.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (55%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Air Force. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Airforce.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 Airforce.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 data is detected on the main page of Air Force. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: