Report Summary

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cbc.ca

CBC.ca - watch, listen, and discover with Canada's Public Broadcaster

Page Load Speed

111 sec in total

First Response

490 ms

Resources Loaded

99.4 sec

Page Rendered

11.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cbc.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 490 ms and then it took 110.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 15 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

cbc.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.cbc.ca

490 ms

main.ff19566d6f4813217291.css

354 ms

cbc-stats-top.js

934 ms

defer.js

906 ms

vendor.845a6b21b508130b2147.js

2528 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Cbc.ca, 13% (7 requests) were made to I.cbc.ca and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.viafoura.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (58.7 sec) relates to the external source I.cbc.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (54%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Cbc.ca main page is 8.0 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. Javascripts take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 361.0 kB

  • Original 420.3 kB
  • After minification 414.0 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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 361.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. CBC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 2.7 MB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB
  • After compression 1.2 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 2.7 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 270.6 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. Cbc.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (77%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CBC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cbc.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 Cbc.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 Cbc.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 CBC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: