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blogs.theprovince.com

Home | The Province Home Page | The Province

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

640 ms

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

763 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.theprovince.com page load time and found that the first response time was 640 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.theprovince.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

index.html

640 ms

sso.js

93 ms

capture_client.js

17 ms

CDMScriptManager-1.0.js

142 ms

jquery-hoverintent.js

143 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.theprovince.com, 7% (11 requests) were made to A.wishabi.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to 1.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.4 sec) relates to the external source Theprovince.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

677.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.theprovince.com main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 993.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 155.4 kB

  • Original 188.5 kB
  • After minification 155.4 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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 33.1 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 155.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 240.9 kB
  • After minification 227.8 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. Blogs The Province images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 642.5 kB

  • Original 993.3 kB
  • After minification 950.8 kB
  • After compression 350.9 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 642.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 227.0 kB

  • Original 293.1 kB
  • After minification 269.6 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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. Blogs.theprovince.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 227.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (60%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

58

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs The Province. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

blogs.theprovince.com 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 Blogs.theprovince.com 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 Blogs.theprovince.com 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

blogs.theprovince.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blogs The Province. 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: