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hdsb.ca

Halton District School Board

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

167 ms

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About Website

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The Halton District School Board serves public school students across Halton Region, including Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton, and Oakville.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hdsb.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hdsb.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hdsb.ca

183 ms

Home.aspx

315 ms

controls.css

91 ms

HDSBBand.css

92 ms

HtmlEditorCustomStyles.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Hdsb.ca, 7% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (461 ms) belongs to the original domain Hdsb.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 813.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Hdsb.ca main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 812.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 51.8 kB

  • Original 60.4 kB
  • After minification 39.6 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 20.8 kB, which is 34% 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 51.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 56.8 kB

  • Original 806.7 kB
  • After minification 749.9 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. Hdsb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 574.6 kB

  • Original 812.9 kB
  • After minification 703.4 kB
  • After compression 238.3 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 574.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 130.0 kB

  • Original 157.1 kB
  • After minification 128.7 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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. Hdsb.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (57%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hdsb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hdsb.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 Hdsb.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 Hdsb.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 Hdsb. 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: