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homes.canada.com

Homes | Improvement, Renovation Ideas & Reviews | National Post

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homes.canada.com page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homes.canada.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.househunting.ca

230 ms

index.html

269 ms

sso.js

49 ms

capture_client.js

36 ms

hh_global.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Homes.canada.com, 14% (21 requests) were made to Ratesupermarket.ca and 5% (8 requests) were made to Affiliates.ratesupermarket.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.6 sec) relates to the external source Househunting.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 642.3 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

489.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Homes.canada.com main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 726.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 127.2 kB
  • After minification 116.8 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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 90.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 193.6 kB
  • After minification 187.4 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. Homes Canada images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 475.6 kB

  • Original 726.4 kB
  • After minification 678.2 kB
  • After compression 250.9 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 475.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 84.8 kB
  • After minification 71.5 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Homes.canada.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (72%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homes Canada. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

homes.canada.com SEO score

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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 Homes.canada.com 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 Homes.canada.com 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 Homes Canada. 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: