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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

history.alberta.ca

377 ms

default.css

292 ms

history.css

118 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

179 ms

SpryMenuBarVertical.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original History.alberta.ca, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (801 ms) belongs to the original domain History.alberta.ca.

Content Size

831.2 kB

After Optimization

446.5 kB

In fact, the total size of History.alberta.ca main page is 831.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 464.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

Original 61.5 kB
After minification 58.7 kB
After compression 19.2 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 42.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

Original 280.5 kB
After minification 258.9 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. History Alberta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 300.7 kB

Original 464.8 kB
After minification 459.3 kB
After compression 164.0 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 300.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

Original 24.4 kB
After minification 15.8 kB
After compression 4.4 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. History.alberta.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of History Alberta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise History.alberta.ca 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 History.alberta.ca main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

history.alberta.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of History Alberta. 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:

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Historic sites, museums and archives | Alberta.ca

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Key Findings

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Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)