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Welcome to news.therecord.com homepage info - get ready to check News Therecord best content for Canada right away, or after learning these important things about news.therecord.com
TheRecord.com is your Kitchener-Waterloo daily online newspaper. It’s your source for what’s on, news, sports and events pulled from the Waterloo Region Record.
Visit news.therecord.comWe analyzed News.therecord.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 290 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.therecord.com, 18% (53 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com and 12% (35 requests) were made to Therecord.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (506 ms) relates to the external source Media.zuza.com.
Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (38%)
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In fact, the total size of News.therecord.com main page is 4.4 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.
Potential reduce by 186.8 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 42.9 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 186.8 kB or 76% of the original size.
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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. News Therecord images are well optimized though.
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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 1.2 MB or 74% of the original size.
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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. News.therecord.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 136.2 kB or 83% of the original size.
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The browser has sent 274 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Therecord. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.therecord.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 News.therecord.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News Therecord. 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: