Report Summary

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accn.ca

ACCN, the Canadian Chemical News, Headlines - November / December 2018 | The Chemical Institute of Canada

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Accn.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

magazine

2943 ms

system.base.css

46 ms

system.messages.css

44 ms

system.theme.css

47 ms

aggregator.css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Accn.ca, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Cheminst.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.7 kB (66%)

Content Size

425.8 kB

After Optimization

144.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Accn.ca main page is 425.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 179.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 68.9 kB
  • After compression 13.7 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 58.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 53.6 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. ACCN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 121.7 kB

  • Original 179.9 kB
  • After minification 159.0 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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 121.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 99.5 kB

  • Original 118.2 kB
  • After minification 71.2 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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. Accn.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (89%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACCN. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 35 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 Accn.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 Accn.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 ACCN. 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: