Access icrossroads.com. Edmonton Community Networks

icrossroads.com

263 ms

www.ecn.ab.ca

240 ms

ecn.css

78 ms

ecntexonlyt.gif

182 ms

ecnglobe.jpg

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Icrossroads.com, 80% (4 requests) were made to Ecn.ab.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (283 ms) relates to the external source Ecn.ab.ca.

Content Size

37.0 kB

After Optimization

28.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Icrossroads.com main page is 37.0 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 917 B

Original 1.6 kB
After minification 1.5 kB
After compression 678 B

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 917 B or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

Original 34.3 kB
After minification 27.4 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, Icrossroads needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.9 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 760 B

Original 1.1 kB
After minification 867 B
After compression 304 B

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. Icrossroads.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 760 B or 71% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Icrossroads. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

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 Icrossroads.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 Icrossroads.com 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

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