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education.gov.sk.ca

Ministry of Education | Ministries | Government of Saskatchewan

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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The Ministry of Education is committed to learning success and literacy. Learn about early learning and child care, K-12 education and provincial libraries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Education.gov.sk.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

education.gov.sk.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

education.gov.sk.ca

368 ms

Base.css

259 ms

Base.css

110 ms

PictureGallery.css

107 ms

SlideShow.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Education.gov.sk.ca, 6% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (448 ms) belongs to the original domain Education.gov.sk.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 510.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

490.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Education.gov.sk.ca main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 638.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 69.9 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 50.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 23.1 kB

  • Original 255.0 kB
  • After minification 231.9 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. Education Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 408.0 kB

  • Original 638.3 kB
  • After minification 633.5 kB
  • After compression 230.3 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 408.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 35.9 kB
  • After minification 27.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Education.gov.sk.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (51%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Education Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

education.gov.sk.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Education.gov.sk.ca 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 Education.gov.sk.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 Education Gov. 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: