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culturaldistrict.ca

Calgary Arts Development | A Creative, Connected Calgary through the arts

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

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About Website

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As the city’s designated arts development authority, Calgary Arts Development supports and strengthens the arts to benefit all Calgarians.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Culturaldistrict.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 1.5 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

culturaldistrict.ca performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

calgaryartsdevelopment.com

129 ms

system.base.css

36 ms

system.menus.css

70 ms

system.messages.css

71 ms

system.theme.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Culturaldistrict.ca, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (302 ms) relates to the external source Calgaryartsdevelopment.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.4 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Culturaldistrict.ca main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 60.3 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 50.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 78.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB

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. Culturaldistrict images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 314.5 kB

  • Original 426.7 kB
  • After minification 351.8 kB
  • After compression 112.2 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 314.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 91.4 kB
  • After minification 65.1 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Culturaldistrict.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (76%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Culturaldistrict. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

culturaldistrict.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 Culturaldistrict.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 Culturaldistrict.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 Culturaldistrict. 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: