Report Summary

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ottawa.ctv.ca

Ottawa News | Local Breaking | CTV News Ottawa

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

246 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

798 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ottawa.ctv.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 246 ms and then it took 2.9 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

ottawa.ctv.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ottawa.ctv.ca

246 ms

ottawa.ctvnews.ca

124 ms

common.css

79 ms

jquery-1.7.js

86 ms

jquery.cookie.js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 318 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ottawa.ctv.ca, 32% (101 requests) were made to Ctvnews.ca and 20% (64 requests) were made to Static.ctvnews.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (43%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ottawa.ctv.ca main page is 5.2 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. 85% 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 260.2 kB

  • Original 297.4 kB
  • After minification 207.4 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 90.0 kB, which is 30% 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 260.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 232.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Ottawa CTV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 649.3 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 1.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 394.0 kB

  • Original 497.4 kB
  • After minification 471.6 kB
  • After compression 103.4 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. Ottawa.ctv.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 394.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 143 (46%)

Requests Now

309

After Optimization

166

The browser has sent 309 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ottawa CTV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ottawa.ctv.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 Ottawa.ctv.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 Ottawa.ctv.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 Ottawa CTV. 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: