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ctvnewsbarrie.ca

Barrie News | Local Breaking | CTV News Barrie

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

780 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctvnewsbarrie.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 780 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctvnewsbarrie.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.ctvnewsbarrie.ca

780 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

112 ms

style.css

110 ms

responsive.css

50 ms

font-awesome.min.css

95 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ctvnewsbarrie.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (780 ms) belongs to the original domain Ctvnewsbarrie.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.8 kB (47%)

Content Size

467.5 kB

After Optimization

248.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Ctvnewsbarrie.ca main page is 467.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 181.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 1.8 kB, which is 12% 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 12.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 181.0 kB
  • After minification 176.2 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. CTV News Barrie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 159.3 kB
  • After minification 157.7 kB
  • After compression 50.5 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 108.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 93.2 kB

  • Original 111.5 kB
  • After minification 88.5 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Ctvnewsbarrie.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (25%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CTV News Barrie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ctvnewsbarrie.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 Ctvnewsbarrie.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 Ctvnewsbarrie.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 CTV News Barrie. 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: