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southwesternontario.ca

Midwestern Newspapers

Page Load Speed

29.6 sec in total

First Response

272 ms

Resources Loaded

26.1 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southwesternontario.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 272 ms and then it took 29.3 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. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

southwesternontario.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

southwesternontario.ca

272 ms

www.southwesternontario.ca

1419 ms

2271 ms

font-awesome.min.css

120 ms

font-awesome.min.css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 385 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Southwesternontario.ca, 12% (48 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 12% (45 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Pixel2368.everesttech.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (38%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Southwesternontario.ca main page is 5.0 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. 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 184.1 kB

  • Original 240.5 kB
  • After minification 199.4 kB
  • After compression 56.4 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 41.1 kB, which is 17% 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 184.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Southwesternontario images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 636.4 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 1.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 275.6 kB

  • Original 339.7 kB
  • After minification 314.3 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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. Southwesternontario.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 275.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 225 (64%)

Requests Now

350

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 350 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southwesternontario. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 82 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Southwesternontario.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 Southwesternontario.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 Southwesternontario. 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: