Report Summary

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    Best Practices

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libguides.cu-portland.edu

Home - Research Guides at Concordia University - Portland

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Libguides.cu-portland.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 2.6 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

libguides.cu-portland.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

libguides.cu-portland.edu

184 ms

1.8.24_themes_base_jquery-ui.css

40 ms

bootstrap.min.css

15 ms

bootstrap-accessibility_1.0.3.css

72 ms

springshare.public.min.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Libguides.cu-portland.edu, 26% (11 requests) were made to Answerland.org and 10% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Answerland.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (75%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

340.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Libguides.cu-portland.edu main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 829.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 184.2 kB

  • Original 199.2 kB
  • After minification 173.4 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 25.8 kB, which is 13% 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 184.2 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 38.9 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. Lib Guides Cu Portland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 592.7 kB

  • Original 829.8 kB
  • After minification 743.3 kB
  • After compression 237.1 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 592.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 239.7 kB

  • Original 288.9 kB
  • After minification 275.5 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Libguides.cu-portland.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 239.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (65%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lib Guides Cu Portland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

libguides.cu-portland.edu 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 Libguides.cu-portland.edu 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 Libguides.cu-portland.edu 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 Lib Guides Cu Portland. 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: