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cnw.ca

CNW | www.newswire.ca

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

642 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cnw.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cnw.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.newswire.ca

116 ms

left-shifty-nav.css

79 ms

datepicker.css

166 ms

flexslider.css

81 ms

bootstrap-formhelpers.min.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Cnw.ca, 18% (11 requests) were made to Assets2.prnewswire.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Prnewswireassociatio.tt.omtrdc.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (364 ms) relates to the external source Assets2.prnewswire.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 425.5 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Cnw.ca main page is 2.3 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 172.6 kB

  • Original 199.0 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 79.5 kB, which is 40% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 172.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 194.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. CNW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 86.2 kB
  • After minification 86.2 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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 40.4 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. Cnw.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (67%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CNW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cnw.ca SEO score

0

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 Cnw.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 Cnw.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 CNW. 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: