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eciad.ca

Emily Carr University of Art + Design | Vancouver, Canada

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eciad.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eciad.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

eciad.ca

222 ms

www.connect.ecuad.ca

1201 ms

views.css

151 ms

node.css

158 ms

defaults.css

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eciad.ca, 91% (62 requests) were made to Connect.ecuad.ca and 4% (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 Connect.ecuad.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 282.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

829.7 kB

After Optimization

547.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eciad.ca main page is 829.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 484.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 29.2 kB

  • Original 36.1 kB
  • After minification 33.5 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 29.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 484.0 kB
  • After minification 467.1 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. Eciad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 50.8 kB

  • Original 96.5 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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 50.8 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 185.9 kB

  • Original 213.1 kB
  • After minification 146.6 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Eciad.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 185.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (66%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eciad. 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 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

SEO Factors

eciad.ca SEO score

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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 Eciad.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 Eciad.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 Eciad. 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: