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great-lakes.net

Great Lakes Information Network

Page Load Speed

687 ms in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

479 ms

Page Rendered

109 ms

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About Website

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The Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) is a partnership that provides one place online for people to find information relating to the binational Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region of North America. G...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Great-lakes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 588 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

great-lakes.net

99 ms

glin.css

75 ms

rollover_gl.gif

73 ms

rollover_envt.gif

69 ms

rollover_econ.gif

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Great-lakes.net, 17% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (270 ms) relates to the external source Connect.facebook.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 42.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

167.6 kB

After Optimization

124.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Great-lakes.net main page is 167.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 10.8 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 1.4 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 7.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 270 B

  • Original 83.2 kB
  • After minification 82.9 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. Great Lakes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 70.1 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 32.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 603 B

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. Great-lakes.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (30%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Lakes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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great-lakes.net

99 ms

glin.css

glin.css

75 ms

rollover_gl.gif

rollover_gl.gif

73 ms

rollover_envt.gif

rollover_envt.gif

69 ms

rollover_econ.gif

rollover_econ.gif

71 ms

rollover_teach.gif

rollover_teach.gif

85 ms

rollover_gis.gif

rollover_gis.gif

85 ms

rollover_tourism.gif

rollover_tourism.gif

140 ms

space.gif

space.gif

140 ms

ga.js

ga.js

32 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

65 ms

all.js

all.js

270 ms

topLogo.gif

topLogo.gif

82 ms

index_lakeSpr01.jpg

index_lakeSpr01.jpg

83 ms

index_envtSpr01.jpg

index_envtSpr01.jpg

118 ms

index_econSpr01.jpg

index_econSpr01.jpg

83 ms

index_educSpr01.jpg

index_educSpr01.jpg

155 ms

index_gisSpr01.jpg

index_gisSpr01.jpg

159 ms

index_tourSpr01.jpg

index_tourSpr01.jpg

132 ms

index_about.gif

index_about.gif

135 ms

blueRtop.gif

blueRtop.gif

150 ms

dailyNews.gif

dailyNews.gif

183 ms

blueRbot.gif

blueRbot.gif

199 ms

botNav2.gif

botNav2.gif

199 ms

botNav_blue.gif

botNav_blue.gif

215 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

25 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

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collect

22 ms

collect

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61 ms

SEO Factors

great-lakes.net 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 Great-lakes.net 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 Great-lakes.net 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Great Lakes. 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: