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leafscentral.ca

HFBoards - NHL Message Board and Forum for National Hockey League

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

25 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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About Website

Visit leafscentral.ca now to see the best up-to-date Leafscentral content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about leafscentral.ca

HFboards is the largest ice hockey discussion forum, covering the NHL, College, Europe, and any other area of major hockey around the world. Over 36 million posts and growing.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Leafscentral.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 25 ms and then it took 1.7 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

leafscentral.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

leafscentral.ca

25 ms

forumdisplay.php

918 ms

google_service.js

48 ms

15015

68 ms

vbulletin_important.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Leafscentral.ca, 54% (30 requests) were made to Hfboards.hockeysfuture.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Partner.googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (918 ms) relates to the external source Hfboards.hockeysfuture.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.1 kB (61%)

Content Size

596.5 kB

After Optimization

233.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Leafscentral.ca main page is 596.5 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 351.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 166.7 kB

  • Original 195.2 kB
  • After minification 154.0 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 21% 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 166.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 508 B

  • Original 48.1 kB
  • After minification 47.6 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. Leafscentral images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 194.4 kB

  • Original 351.5 kB
  • After minification 341.0 kB
  • After compression 157.0 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 194.4 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 kB
  • After minification 416 B
  • After compression 232 B

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. Leafscentral.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (81%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Leafscentral. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

leafscentral.ca

leafscentral.ca

25 ms

forumdisplay.php

forumdisplay.php

918 ms

google_service.js

google_service.js

48 ms

15015

15015

68 ms

vbulletin_important.css

vbulletin_important.css

186 ms

yahoo-dom-event.js

yahoo-dom-event.js

297 ms

connection-min.js

connection-min.js

187 ms

vbulletin_global.js

vbulletin_global.js

223 ms

vbulletin_menu.js

vbulletin_menu.js

187 ms

google_ads.js

google_ads.js

18 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

14 ms

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

4 ms

esf.js

esf.js

11 ms

brand

brand

18 ms

vbulletin_md5.js

vbulletin_md5.js

143 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

24 ms

brand

brand

106 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

22 ms

container.html

container.html

25 ms

vbulletin_read_marker.js

vbulletin_read_marker.js

82 ms

external.php

external.php

182 ms

cookie_notice.min.js

cookie_notice.min.js

144 ms

rating.gif

rating.gif

183 ms

HFBoards_logo.jpg

HFBoards_logo.jpg

152 ms

navbits_start.gif

navbits_start.gif

98 ms

navbits_finallink_ltr.gif

navbits_finallink_ltr.gif

96 ms

collapse_tcat.gif

collapse_tcat.gif

99 ms

sortasc.gif

sortasc.gif

99 ms

thread_hot.gif

thread_hot.gif

99 ms

hide.gif

hide.gif

162 ms

sticky.gif

sticky.gif

161 ms

multipage.gif

multipage.gif

164 ms

lastpost.gif

lastpost.gif

161 ms

paperclip.gif

paperclip.gif

159 ms

thread.gif

thread.gif

244 ms

thread_moved.gif

thread_moved.gif

244 ms

thread_hot_lock.gif

thread_hot_lock.gif

245 ms

newthread.gif

newthread.gif

245 ms

thread_new.gif

thread_new.gif

245 ms

thread_hot_new.gif

thread_hot_new.gif

247 ms

thread_lock.gif

thread_lock.gif

294 ms

collapse_thead.gif

collapse_thead.gif

295 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

31 ms

gfycat.js

gfycat.js

263 ms

menu_open.gif

menu_open.gif

265 ms

output

output

128 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

31 ms

dc.js

dc.js

36 ms

rating.gif

rating.gif

125 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

9 ms

geo.php

geo.php

162 ms

d.min.js

d.min.js

11 ms

textlink-ads.jpg

textlink-ads.jpg

46 ms

textlink-ads.jpg

textlink-ads.jpg

35 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

23 ms

a.js

a.js

18 ms

SEO Factors

leafscentral.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Leafscentral.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 Leafscentral.ca 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

leafscentral.ca

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Leafscentral. 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: