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Click here to check amazing Thespec content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thespec.com
TheSpec.com is your Hamilton daily online newspaper. It’s your source for what’s on in your exciting city plus up-to-the-minute news and sports events pulled from the headlines of the Hamilton Spectat...
Visit thespec.comWe analyzed Thespec.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 25.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.
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Our browser made a total of 380 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Thespec.com, 18% (70 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 17% (64 requests) were made to Media.zuza.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) relates to the external source Torstardigital.122.2o7.net.
Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (34%)
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In fact, the total size of Thespec.com main page is 4.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 219.7 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 53.7 kB, which is 19% 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 219.7 kB or 77% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 220.4 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. Thespec images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 928.6 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 928.6 kB or 71% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 290.4 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. Thespec.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 290.4 kB or 82% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 187 (53%)
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The browser has sent 355 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thespec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 67 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thespec.com accessibility score
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thespec.com 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 Thespec.com 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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Thespec. 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: