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retirees.uwaterloo.ca

Home | Retirees Association | University of Waterloo

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

208 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Retirees.uwaterloo.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 208 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

retirees.uwaterloo.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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208 ms

347 ms

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223 ms

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199 ms

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208 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Retirees.uwaterloo.ca, 75% (24 requests) were made to Uwaterloo.ca and 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Uwaterloo.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 458.3 kB (52%)

Content Size

876.6 kB

After Optimization

418.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Retirees.uwaterloo.ca main page is 876.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 447.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 35.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 274.8 kB
  • After minification 240.6 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. Obviously, Retirees U Waterloo needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.2 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 302.2 kB

  • Original 447.6 kB
  • After minification 432.3 kB
  • After compression 145.4 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 302.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 94.4 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 115.0 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Retirees.uwaterloo.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (55%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Retirees U Waterloo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 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 Retirees.uwaterloo.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 Retirees.uwaterloo.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 data is detected on the main page of Retirees U Waterloo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: