Report Summary

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live.calgaryherald.com

Home | Calgary Herald

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Live.calgaryherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

live.calgaryherald.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

live.calgaryherald.com

2141 ms

WhiteLabel.css

39 ms

AllEvents.aspx

49 ms

sso.js

114 ms

capture_client.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 184 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Live.calgaryherald.com, 54% (99 requests) were made to Images.scribblelive.com and 24% (44 requests) were made to Calgaryherald.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Calgaryherald.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 917.9 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Live.calgaryherald.com main page is 2.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 158.2 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 171.9 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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 28.0 kB, which is 14% 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 158.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 86.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Live Calgary Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 447.2 kB

  • Original 721.2 kB
  • After minification 677.2 kB
  • After compression 274.0 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 447.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 226.1 kB

  • Original 266.0 kB
  • After minification 212.6 kB
  • After compression 40.0 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. Live.calgaryherald.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 226.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (30%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

124

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Calgary Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

live.calgaryherald.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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 Live.calgaryherald.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 Live.calgaryherald.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 Live Calgary Herald. 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: