Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

18.1 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

17.4 sec

Page Rendered

588 ms

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About Website

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TheSpec.com is your Hamilton daily online newspaper. It’s your source for what’s on in your exciting city plus up-to-the-minute news and sports events pulled from the headlines of the Hamilton Spectat...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hamiltonspectator.com page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 18 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hamiltonspectator.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hamiltonspectator.com

95 ms

5383 ms

font-awesome.min.css

29 ms

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7 ms

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 413 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hamiltonspectator.com, 12% (48 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com and 10% (42 requests) were made to Thespec.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) relates to the external source Thespec.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (34%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

5.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Hamiltonspectator.com main page is 8.7 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. 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 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 195.2 kB

  • Original 256.7 kB
  • After minification 209.8 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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 46.9 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 195.2 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 299.3 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Hamiltonspectator images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB
  • After compression 830.0 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 2.1 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 349.6 kB

  • Original 429.7 kB
  • After minification 387.5 kB
  • After compression 80.1 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. Hamiltonspectator.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 349.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 227 (59%)

Requests Now

384

After Optimization

157

The browser has sent 384 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hamiltonspectator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 87 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hamiltonspectator.com 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 Hamiltonspectator.com 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 Hamiltonspectator.com 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 Hamiltonspectator. 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: