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Latency Testing Disabled.

SiteSpeedLab can't measure the latency of the gc.ca. While performing tests we do not get responses from the remote server 198.103.238.30.
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester
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WebSite Speed Profile

Site Speed Success Formula = good website latency + fast DNS lookup + high page load speed.
Site Speed Laboratory offers analysis of DNS Lookup speed & latency tests (ping) & Page Load speed for every website. Our analysis is based on data for May 31 2011. Since the first of July 2010 we carried out 22 tests from locations
for the main page of this website, the last of which were made about 3456 hours ago

Tests Summary

DNS Summary

Page Speed Summary

Site Speed Laboratory Summary for this website

Location Ping Ping,
change
DNS Lookup DNS Resolve,
change
Page Speed Page Speed,
change
 Usa
7.30% of traffic
NY, New York 278 ms 202 % 123.46 Kb/s 17%
Florida, Tampa 113 ms 37 %
 Germany
0.80% of traffic
Frankfurt 221 ms 3 %
 Canada
65.40% of traffic
Montreal 17 ms
 United Kingdom
1.00% of traffic
Gloucester 486 ms

Summary Widget

SiteSpeedLab Overall Website Rating for this website
Based on our speed test results table and considering features of the current webserver location (Canada, Gatineau), we concluded
overall This website speed rank is 60. That means 60% of the sites from the Gatineau are slower for visitors than this website.

It is important to understand that you can't evaluate website speed without considering website audience location. You should evaluate the speed of the site considering location of your primary audience (visitors), and not just from abstract tests from various points of the planet. There is a chance that your website is quite slow for visitors from German but pretty quick for Australian users at the same time. Based on a primary audience location data Site Speed Laboratory maintains objective rating. Test servers located in the Canada and Usa are more useful and important to Gc.ca because the shares of each country are 65.40 and 7.30 percent respectively.

You should not overestimate the importance of the website speed factor. Google has more than 200 ranking factors and website speed is just one of them.

Graph Milestones

Milestones indicate the approximate date when the Web server was moved from one location to another. We specifically did not perform measurements at the time of the move (DNS requests may receive a different IP for the same domain from different locations, where the testing servers are located). Therefore we have the graph with two or more segments. It's a data measured before and after webserver was moved to the new location.
  Date Country, City Hosting IP
Milestone B 17.04.2011 From Canada, Dartmouth
to Canada, Gatineau
From Public Works And Government Services Canada
to Public Works And Government Services Canada
205.193.117.94 to 198.103.238.30
Milestone A 27.03.2011 From Canada, Gatineau
to Canada, Dartmouth
From Public Works And Government Services Canada
to Public Works And Government Services Canada
198.103.238.30 to 205.193.117.94

DNS Lookup Speed

Browser should lookup domain name and get IP address of the server (198.103.238.30) before downloading the page. We test DNS resolve for this domain from 5 locations. That's how we've got the average time of receiving IP: 0.22s (which is better than 24% of all sites). For more detailed stats look at DNS tests graph and DNS resolve page for Canada, Gatineau location (Average value on the widget is an average DNS resolve time for websites hosted at the same location).

DNS History Graph

Compare DNS From Servers
Usa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
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 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss
Compare DNS From Servers
Usa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester
The main purpose of the testing is a measuring the speed and rating the stability of the latency to this IP from around the world in comparison with sites of the region (the city).
The chart will appear within this DIV. This text will be replaced by the chart.
 Usa, NY, New York
 Usa, Florida, Tampa
 Germany, Frankfurt
 Canada, Montreal
 United Kingdom, Gloucester

Graph Legend

  • Maximum latency for current location, mouse over for the details.
  • Mimimal latency for current location, mouse over for the details (date, value, etc.)
  • Milestones indicate the change of IP for the current site
  • Data Loss

Compare DNS Speed

Compare DNS Lookup


vs

Our Servers
Usa
NY, New York
Florida, Tampa
Germany, Frankfurt
Canada, Montreal
United Kingdom, Gloucester

The table below shows the dynamic of the DNS Lookup speed changes for the website from various locations.

Location Last check 7 day change 1 month change 3 month change 6 month change
 Usa
7.30% of traffic
NY, New York 278 ms 3%
170/175 ms
Florida, Tampa 113 ms 32%
136/199 ms
 Germany
0.80% of traffic
Frankfurt 221 ms 33%
473/355 ms
 Canada
65.40% of traffic
Montreal 17 ms 47%
44/30 ms
 United Kingdom
1.00% of traffic
Gloucester 486 ms 28%
346/478 ms

Fragment of Gatineau DNS Speed rating table for this website

The table is constructed according to the data from the US datacenters

# Domain Compare DNS Resolve Speed Provider
1. Chessforums.org 59 ms E-Gate Communications
2. Eclipse.org 63 ms Magma Communications
3. Civilization.ca 82 ms Canadian Museum Of Civilization
... ... ... ... ...
17. Cspo.qc.ca 191 ms Bell Canada
18. Tvweb360.com 213 ms Videotron Telecom Ltee
19. Gc.ca 223 ms Public Works And Government Services Canada
20. Lebaron.ca 225 ms Babillard Synapse
21. Canscaip.org 360 ms E-Gate Communications
... ... ... ... ...
25. Tcpdump.org 857 ms Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais

Page Speed Test

Content-Type's Weights
 
 
Content-Type's Weights by Hosts
 
 
Downloading page itself is the final stage of the testing. Actually, this is the last stage, after which page is displayed completely for user. The download speed depends on many factors. Main factors are the following: the width of the bandwidth up to the domain, the number of simultaneous download threads, speed of the server, a distance between user and domain web server. Recent measurements have shown the speed of page download for this domain is 123.464Kb/s (which is better than 60% of all sites in this region). For more detailed stats check out report for Gatineau hosted websites.

 
 
 

Page Speed

Page Speed is a key factor in the website speed estimations (along with DNS lookup speed and website latency). Speed of the page loading, sophisticated subdomains usage for static content (images, css), optimized code (html, js), hosting on fast servers with good latency to its audience leads to good results and, ultimately, to a good website profitability.

While conducting tests we emulate a visit your website using the browser Firefox 3.5.6. Test results of the page loading listed in this table:

Pagespeed Flash Table

Ways to improve website performance

Once the document (website's main page) has been downloaded, we analyze it. It allows us to give webmasters some recommendations on how to optimize page load speed. We analyze the internal and external factors.

Enable GZIP Compression

This is a good practice to give the user content in compressed form. We've detected 23.66 Kb of content that could be compressed. By compressing content you can achieve the size of ~ 5.91 Kb (saving 17.74 Kb). This would accelerate the page loading speed and would positively impact the bandwidth savings in Public Works And Government Services Canada.
http://www.gc.ca/. File size 6.74 Kb and you can save up to 5.06 Kb
http://www.gc.ca/css/wp-pa.css. File size 2.81 Kb and you can save up to 2.11 Kb
http://www.gc.ca/css/wp-pa2.css. File size 0.44 Kb and you can save up to 0.33 Kb
http://www.gc.ca/css/wp-pa-institution.css. File size 3.53 Kb and you can save up to 2.65 Kb
http://www.gc.ca/css/institution.css. File size 10.13 Kb and you can save up to 7.6 Kb

Keep Components under 25K

Users often visit web site using a mobile phone. Even the most modern and advanced gadgets have some limitations. For example an iPhone browser do not cache page components bigger than 25K. So you should strive to ensure that scripts, CSS-styles, etc. are less than 25K.
http://www.gc.ca/images/wp-pa/3.jpg  Content-Encoding: image/jpeg. File size 51.23 Kb.

Content Semantics

We suggest you along with important and well-known tags like Title & H1 use also H2, H3, H4, H5, STRONG tags. Each page can (and should) highlight not only the main topic, but also complement the semantic core of the page and the whole site with the secondary keywords. For example, if the main topic of the page is dedicated servers, there is a probability that page has a blog about managed dedicated servers. If so try to highlight the title of the block by using tag <H2>, and an information that you provide this service in the United Kingdom highlight with H3 tag and so on. Thus try to highlight every important fragment of the information on your page with tags like STRONG, H2, H3, etc. We did not find H2 tags, H3 tags, H4 tags, H5 tags, STRONG tags on the page

Use the TITLE for A tag

As we have already mentioned, search engine bots can not see the site like a people do it. They more focused on the descriptions of certain page elements. That's why we strongly recommend use TITLE operator in the "A" tag. This operator not only describes the page referenced by the page more detailed, but also takes part in the page describing. For example, you have the link on your website:
78.   <a href="/home.html">English</a>
We suggest you to remake it in this way:
78.   <a href="/home.html" title="gouvernement du canada">English</a>
Of course, you can (and should) use more proper phrase instead of the "gouvernement du canada" that describes the link /home.html.


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