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edmontonstories.ca

Transit (ETS) | City of Edmonton

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

165 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) provides public transportation in the City with diesel buses, community buses, light rail transit (LRT) and services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edmontonstories.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 165 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edmontonstories.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

edmontonstories.ca

165 ms

www.makesomethingedmonton.ca

348 ms

www.makesomethingedmonton.ca

510 ms

wvw4kss.js

241 ms

modernizr.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Edmontonstories.ca, 63% (34 requests) were made to Makesomethingedmonton.ca and 19% (10 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (988 ms) relates to the external source Use.typekit.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Edmontonstories.ca main page is 3.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 8.4 kB, which is 18% 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 37.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Edmonton Stories images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 281.3 kB

  • Original 310.2 kB
  • After minification 150.8 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Edmontonstories.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 281.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edmonton Stories. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

edmontonstories.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 Edmontonstories.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 Edmontonstories.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 data is detected on the main page of Edmonton Stories. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: