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canadian-universities.net

Canadian Universities, Colleges, Higher Education and Employment in Canada

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

161 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

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About Website

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A guide to Canadian universities, community colleges and career colleges. Includes profiles of universities and colleges in Canada along with their available certificate, undergraduate and graduate pr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Canadian-universities.net page load time and found that the first response time was 161 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

canadian-universities.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

canadian-universities.net

161 ms

styles2009.css

64 ms

canadian-universities4.jpg

287 ms

like.php

135 ms

brand

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Canadian-universities.net, 9% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (417 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 70.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

294.7 kB

After Optimization

224.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Canadian-universities.net main page is 294.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 193.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 41.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 34.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 193.9 kB
  • After minification 186.5 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. Canadian Universities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 46.4 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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 16.7 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Canadian-universities.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (18%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Canadian Universities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Canadian-universities.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Canadian-universities.net 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

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