Report Summary

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Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connect.ancestry.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

connect.ancestry.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

connect.ancestry.ca

169 ms

community.ancestry.ca

364 ms

utilities.js

24 ms

selector-min.js

22 ms

combo.ashx

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Connect.ancestry.ca, 33% (19 requests) were made to C.mfcreative.com and 21% (12 requests) were made to Canary.mfcreative.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (364 ms) relates to the external source Community.ancestry.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

750.0 kB

After Optimization

339.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Connect.ancestry.ca main page is 750.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 356.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.2 kB, which is 12% 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 33.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 179.8 kB
  • After minification 173.6 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. Connect Ancestry images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 236.9 kB

  • Original 356.8 kB
  • After minification 355.9 kB
  • After compression 119.8 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 236.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 133.6 kB

  • Original 168.8 kB
  • After minification 168.7 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. Connect.ancestry.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 133.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (65%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Connect Ancestry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

connect.ancestry.ca SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Connect.ancestry.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Connect.ancestry.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 Connect Ancestry. 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: